Aaron Parecki

Frankly no I don't trust everyone's blogs to get the event markup right. There's a lot of fields, and a lot of ways it can go wrong. IndieNews works this way and it's hard enough for people to get that right, and that's just a name or content property.

I'm going to add an "Import Event" button to load an event from a URL with Microformats, so if you want to you can post the event on your site and import it, but it will preview what it found before actually creating the event.

The other factor is that one of the primary goals of this site is to lower the barrier for people hosting events, and that means not making them think about markup at all.

Yes and no.

If you want to attend an event in Portland on June 29th, and you live in Japan, and you add that event to your calendar with no timezone, your calendar will record it as "June 29th". That means no matter what timezone you switch your phone to, it will always show up as the right date.

It only fails if your phone adds a fixed timezone to it such as the timezone of your current location. In that case, it will show up at a different time once you change timezones.

Also this is not unique to the date line, it happens with any timezone change. The important thing is that if there is no timezone, calendar apps need to treat it as a "floating" or "local" time and always display the stated time of the event completely ignoring timezones.

The case where it doesn't work is if you want to remotely attend an event in a different timezone. That's why for short one-day events that are likely to have remote participants, I recommend setting a timezone on the event. But for multi-day events, you're going to have to look up the starting time on the actual schedule anyway, so you'll figure out the timezone conversion at that point instead.

They're gonna do something major pretty soon which should help! https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20984328/twitter-removing-inactive-accounts-usernames-available-date

I would never want to wish iCal feed generation on anyone, it's a pretty obtuse format. That said, there are plenty of other software that publish ical feeds so I do want to be able to import those too. But for indie websites I would recommend publishing microformats instead.

well that's awesome! and congrats on a successful year for sure!

I'll get there eventually! 😅

wow that's 💸💸💸💸!

at some point the cost of the camera can't produce that much better pictures right?

Actually I feel like you're in a pretty good position to run a test like that... video idea: "How much picture quality can money actually buy?"

How would you feel about a manual "import event" option rather than the traditional syndication method used by bridgy and news.indieweb.org? I'm imagining you'd click "Import Event" on the website, provide your URL, and it would then populate the "Add an Event" form with everything it found from your website.

Yeah definitely! I'm going to have to think through the UX on that. I think the hardest part will be providing a good experience around noticing and fixing errors in the source event markup before just blindly adding an event to the website with partially broken info.

This is a fantastic video! Thanks for the shoutout! And wow so many cameras to make that.

Side note... it looks like the GoPro is suuuper delayed, which matches what I was seeing in my testing. Bummer that it's not really usable for this!