I’ve posted the first version of the FAQ for the elmcity calendar syndication project. If you’re interested in becoming a calendar curator for your community, or if you know someone else who would be, that’s the place to start.

If you’re impatient, like me, here’s the quickstart. Suppose your community is Ypsilanti, Michigan. The steps are as follows.

1. Create a Delicious account. For example: ypsicals.

2. Bookmark this URL:

http://delicious.com/ypsicals/metadata

To do that, start here:

Then do this:

3. Add these tags to the bookmark:

where=ypsilanti,mi

tz=eastern

(See the FAQ for the full list of timezone names.)

Like so:

There’s more, of course, but that’s the minimal setup required to bootstrap a location and have it show up in the aggregator.