#events 2025-10-08

2025-10-08 UTC
gRegor, [lazcorp]1, [KevinMarks], [Zephyr], [John_Gorenfeld], [benji], [artlung]1 and gRegorLove_ joined the channel
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[artlung] When is Eastern?
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club - Eastern on Oct 8 at 18:00pm -04:00 https://events.indieweb.org/rZSwDnzZJksW
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[artlung] (2 hours from now)
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[Al_Abut] Thanks for the reminder. The iCal link doesn’t work in google calendar for me :(
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[Al_Abut] So I’m still back to manually scanning and updating the events 🤷‍♂️
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aaronpk which ical link?
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[Al_Abut] I added these 4
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[Al_Abut] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2025/10/events-20251008-202313-image_from_ios.jpg
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gRegor Odd. I just subscribed to https://events.indieweb.org/ics/tag/pacific in gCal. There's no upcoming events yet, but past ones filled in.
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gRegor Did you click through on the "iCalendar Feed" link and copy the link from the form? That "iCalendar Feed" link isn't the feed itself, maybe that could be made more clear
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gRegor The url has "/preview" at the end, but it's not really previewing, just the form with the ICS URL you can copy and subscribe to
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[Al_Abut] Ah, lemme check
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[Al_Abut] Nope, no preview in the url
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[Al_Abut] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2025/10/events-20251008-204400-image_from_ios.jpg
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aaronpk oh that's the ics for just the one event
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aaronpk you need to susbcribe to the tag feed
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aaronpk https://events.indieweb.org/ics/tag/fresh
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[Al_Abut] Oh gotcha. I just clicked through the event page and assumed it was a series.
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[Al_Abut] Ah, never noticed the tags on the event pages before. Now I know what they’re for but don’t see iCal links on those pages either?
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aaronpk yeah there isn't really the concept of an event series other than tags
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aaronpk but this is the second time today this has come up
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[tantek] tags seems to solve this problem reasonably well
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aaronpk yeah, i think the answer is to make the tag feeds accessible from the individual event pages
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[tantek] Though I suppose cloning could create such an implicit concept as a "series"
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aaronpk I did just add a link from a cloned event to the event it's cloned from, so now in theory i have a full chain available
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aaronpk so I *could* make it so that if you subscribe to a single event, the ics feed for that event will get future events added to it
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aaronpk or the other way to think of it is the ics feed on an event page would actually correspond to the chain of cloned events
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aaronpk the downside would be if someone ever creates an event without cloning, then it would break the chain
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aaronpk which is why i like tags for this better
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[tantek] That makes sense
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[tantek] The advantage of "chaining" is that it could also be something you as an event creator explicitly choose on a new event (like this is the most recent version of this previous event, pick from earlier versions)
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[tantek] Then the old(er) event(s) could also display a banner at the top saying "this event was in the past, see the upcoming event here: link"
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[tantek] That way I could e.g chain the IWC Berlin 2025 event to the 2024 event and if someone somehow found that one (eg google search) then they could more easily find the upcoming one
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aaronpk that would be cool
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aaronpk pretty sure i would need a way to manually edit the chained event then, because it seems very likely someone will create next year's IWC from scratch rather than copying the previous one
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[tantek] right, it would need UI to chain to a prev event
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[tantek] Meetable slowly working its way towards being a self-hosted Eventbrite / Meetup replacement 💪
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aaronpk the real challenge is registration/ticketing
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[tantek] yeah that's a very different kind of thing. fortunately Tito does that part quite well without trying to be a full events platform
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[tantek] maybe ticketing is an orthogonal building block
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aaronpk the number of options in tito is a lot, it clearly indicates there is not a one size fits all solution for ticketing
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aaronpk every time i would go set it up for an IWC i would have to re-learn the whole thing
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aaronpk which does suggest that maybe there's room for a simpler solution for the relatively simple case of IWCs
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gRegor [Al_Abut], the tag iCal link is at the bottom https://events.indieweb.org/tag/eastern > iCalendar Feed > then copy the ICS URL
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[Al_Abut] Thanks [gRegorLove]!
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gRegor welcome!
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gRegor what is office hours
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Loqi office hours is a practice of being available for serendipitous but structured professional or mentoring or knowledge sharing oriented introductions, typically on a video meeting, to people usually by opening one's calendar app to invites https://indieweb.org/office_hours
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gRegor what is calendly
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "calendly" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "calendly is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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gRegor calendar silo, don't think we need the page currently
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[tantek] agreed
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gRegor what is astro
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Loqi Astro is static site generator used by several people in the IndieWeb community to run their personal sites https://indieweb.org/Astro
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gRegor what is hugo
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Loqi Hugo is a static site generator written in Go used by several people in the IndieWeb community to run their personal sites https://indieweb.org/hugo
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gRegor what is processwire
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Loqi ProcessWire is an open source PHP content management system/content management framework https://indieweb.org/ProcessWire
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gRegor what is org mode
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Loqi Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining todo lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system https://indieweb.org/Org_mode
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[tantek] lol what channel are we in
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gRegor what is libre.fm
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Loqi libre.fm is a free and open source creative workspace that is IndieWeb friendly https://indieweb.org/libre.fm
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gRegor These are coming up in the HWC :)
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[tantek] Amazing
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[tantek] gRegor++ for directing folks to the wiki
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[morganm] Gotta drop! Great event today, always get a good dose of philosophy and practical