[BLU/Officers] Calendar update ?

[John Abreau]

I took a look at the calendar.ics cgi script, and it turned out there were
several perl modules it required that were not installed on driftwood.

I just installed the missing modules, and the script is working once again.

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> For now, I've replaced the linkon the BLU website to point to
>
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> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/blu-events%40gapps.blu.org/public/basic.ics
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> 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
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>>
>>    - 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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