Karl, I think it would be great!  Like you, I find the Samba calendar
confusing at best...

jake

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:

> I don't want to step on anyone's toes with this project, nor do I want to
> duplicate work that someone else has already done, but I don't see anything
> like a comprehensive national (or international) calendar.
>
> At this point, to the best of my knowledge, there is no Google groups
> calendar set up at this point, though it would certainly be easy to do.
>
> Next step would be to identify those individuals who could represent
> different V'gon groups, such as Wet Westies or the Full Moon gang, so we
> can
> populate the calendar.
>
> We need to figure out who is hosting the calendar (I'd be willing), and how
> to most easily access it (my suggestion is to post a link on the Vanagon
> Wiki.
>
> Am I all wet, or is this a viable and worthwhile project?
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of
> |John Meeks
> |Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:44 PM
> |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> |Subject: Re: event calendar?
> |
> |I have some events listed over at vanagonauts.com that I could copy into
> |the
> |google groups calendar if that's how we want to populate the wikiwidget.
> |
> |John Meeks
> |'91 Multivan
> |Northern Michigan
> |
> |Vanagon Rescue Squad
> |www.vanagonauts.com
> |
> |
> |
> |On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Steve Williams <sbw@sbw.org> wrote:
> |
> |> At 03:45 PM 7/29/2010, Karl Wolz wrote:
> |>
> |>> How about a calendar format with location posted by date?  Or a
> |>> database that's searchable by location and date.  That would be useful.
> |>>
> |>
> |> I can suggest one way to make it database-driven on the Vanagon wiki:
> |>
> |> For another volunteer group, I used the Google Calendar API to add a
> |> widget showing the upcoming events, with links to Google Calendar for
> |> the full list.  You can see it here:
> |>
> |> http://www.savehangarone.org/
> |>
> |> The Vanagon wiki volunteer project already has a Google account, I
> |> believe.  If volunteers would like to contribute to a Vanagon
> |> calendar via Google Groups, I'll work on adding it to the wiki as a
> |widget.
> |>
>

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Jake

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