Chuckle. Sorry…

> Either way, there are at least six green
> seattle ical files that I already subscribe
> to myself. I *could* go down the topical
> route.

Sure, give it a try and see how it goes.

Either way, there are at least six green seattle ical files that I already subscribe to myself. I *could* go down the topical route.

In that case I’d create the Delicious account GreenEventsInSeattle and use the original place-based method.

Alternatively, if you were doing general curation for Seattle and wanted to have a green topic within it, you could use the categorization (tagging) methods.

http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/06/04/categorizing-events/

http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/06/08/scribbling-in-the-margins-of-icalendar/

Either way, you’d get the union of Eventful and Upcoming plus your registry of feeds.

Oh, wait a sec. That /won’t/ work. You’d need to restrict the stuff coming from Eventful and Upcoming to green events. And they will almost never be tagged reliably as such. Best you could do is rely on the venue-tagging scheme described in http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/06/04/categorizing-events/, in cases where a venue is always associated with green events.

So you’d mostly need to deal with Eventful and Upcoming at the per-event level rather than the per-feed level. In which case, if you created a subset of Eventful and Upcoming green events — as determined by you — then you might as well do that as an iCalendar feed. In which case it would be just another iCalendar feed in a topical hub.

Good question, Michael!

I would think that folks producing and promoting green events will be individuals and organizations who have websites, and who publish info about their events on those websites, and who could (but probably do not) make their web info available in iCal format for syndication.

So I reckon the challenge in this case boils down to the same one this project is tackling generally: showing people why and how to publish iCal feeds that augment the HTML, PDF, email, and paper formats they are currently using.