I posted a comment over on Doug Hellmann's blog
( http://blog.doughellmann.com/200...pycon- 2008.html )
, and I would like to repeat it here:

I am working on getting the schedule app up and running for this year with some new features.

Last year, people could publish their personal schedule via google calendar. For those without accounts this was a one-time import/export. For those with accounts it was a live feed connection so changes were synced. This required having a google account and a 5 step process to create, connect, add comments and then embed the schedule in your blog. As a result only one person did it (well two if you count my test).

This year I want to add a more direct embed mechanism. That is once you select the talks (and sync to your account) the first time, there will be a link to generate the IFRAME html for embedding your schedule in your blog. It would not have all the features of the google calendar (no comments, no tooltips, no publishing, etc.) but it would allow us to have a list of links on the talks back to the blog posts.

The tooltips could be done as well but that could have nasty side effects/bugs so I would want that as a late optional addition.

Do you think this would be useful? Would you have found it useful for your post?

Last years schedule app:
http://us.pycon.org/apps07/schedule/

(sorry logins are no longer working)

[ Oh and this year each talk will have its own html page that can be linked to. ]
Doug Napoleone | Homepage | 08/01/27 - 7:25 pm | #