The calendar is intended to make it easy to know when Racket related events are happening.
With that in mind it needs occasional maintenance and review to ensure it is working as intended.
I believe the calendar is configured correctly but need you to tell me it is working
We have three recurring events:
| Event | Schedule | Next | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Racket meet-up | First Saturday of the month 18:00 UTC | 2025-02-01T18:00:00Z | https://meet.jit.si/Racketmeet-up |
| Rhombus meet-up | Every 2 weeks on Thursday (6pm Mountain Time) | 2025-01-24T02:00:00Z | https://utah.zoom.us/j/96590513005 |
| Qi meet-up | Weekly 1800 UTC | 2025-01-24T18:00:00Z | https://app.gather.town/app/wH1EDG3McffLjrs0/racket-users |
(I'm hoping discourse displays the 'Next' event time correctly)
The calendar currently uses google calendar - I believe it meets the minimal requirements of being relatively accessible, not requiring a google profile/login, and works with the calendars that people use. If there are better options I'd like to know? (e.g. should we be publishing an 'official' feed at https://racket-lang.org/events ? )
calendar links
- Google calendar link
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YTZhN2c5c2c3MzlnamZlYWs2aWxraDhmZGNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ
This link has the undesirable feature of requiring you to be logged in to google to access it
- iframe
(I'm assuming this displays - I just get a recaptcha)
By default it shows the posters timezone - so this will show the Europe/London timezone - something that is easy to miss because the timezone is in tiny text at the bottom, and unchangable as far as I can tell.
3.Public URL
Like the iframe this includes the posters timezone - making it display the wrong times for people in other timezones
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe%2FLondon
Like iframe I think removing the ctz parameter lets it display using your timezone
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com
- public address in ical
I believe this lets you subscribe from calendar apps
I don't know if this requires you to be logged in to google to use.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics