[BLU/Officers] Calendar update ?

[John Abreau]

For now, I've replaced the linkon the BLU website to point to

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/blu-events%40gapps.blu.org/public/basic.ics



On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:29 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> TL;DR version
>
> From at least 2014 thru March 11, we had redundant calendaring options.
>
>    -  Publicly shared Google Calendar named *blu-events at gapps.blu.org
>    <blu-events at gapps.blu.org>*
>    - *http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics
>    <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics>*
>
> On the mailing lists, the latter was offered as an alternative for the
> latter, for use when the native Gapps Gcal wasn't usable (for unclear
> reasons) either temporarily or permanently (due to incompatibility).
>
> In later mail archives, It looks like i switched to the direct ICS version
> in 2017 when the Gapps Gcal native got the timezone conversion wrong one
> month. (IIRC timezone was double deducted; it was a Federico meeting.)
>
> The ICS fetch from blu.org last succeeded on 2019-03-11, internally
> timestamped by *cheyenne*.blu.org .
> That seems about right ... probably the last calendar update before it
> failed.
>
> The current server at blu.org returns *HTTP 500* for the ICS URL.
>
> NEXT STEPS
>
>
>    - In the short term, I have switched back to the working Gapps native
>    Gcal, and have suggested same to Tom.
>       - If any other users are still using the .ics URL, they should also
>       switch back if they can.
>       - Perhaps MGT would prefer to send that email to Announce or
>       Discuss rather than have me write it with my snark?
>       - In the medium term, JABR should consider restoring the
>    http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics functionality on the new server so
>    that
>    (a) we have the backup calendar source that was useful with hiccups in
>    2014 and 2017
>    (b) folks who don't use Google can calendar with us.
>    - We should probably include text/links to both on the main Calendar
>    page so they're easy to find?
>
>

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