vsoch
commented
4 years ago Oh I have ideas! So there are three general ideas for how I've seen this done:
- the embedded Google Calendar (imho this is fairly ugly, and without a lot of events it gets hard to see what was there and in the future) someone added this to the usrse site and we were discussing recently that it's not great link
- events page that expires: is a simple solution that renders a set of events (a jekyll collection) in the repository onto a page, and it's a collection so each one has it's own page for adding additional information. When the date passes, they go to the events archive. Since I implemented this there, I'd be happy to do it again - it's a fairly simple solution. It would even work well beside a calendar.
- back to the calendar! I think Google Calendar is ugly, but this calendar that is open source looks rather nice (click on the list view) so that could be paired with events. The "render from collection" would work if the events each have pages, but if not, there could also be just rendering from a list from a data yaml file.
For the share buttons, that is fairly easy to embed with just custom javascript and html. I'm not sure about "adding to calendar" buttons, I think we would need a calendar feed for that.
Let me know your thoughts! I'd also be happy to work on this.
Chilipp
Not sure on the best format for this, but we should start the conversation.
We need to list the upcoming events, possibly as a calendar. They should be sorted by date, those that are in the past should be hidden, and it needs to be easy to edit so we can add new events. We'd probably want to advertise the next one or two events on the main page, as well as make it easy to share the events via all the various channels (twitter, email etc).
Anyone got any experience doing something like this within github pages?