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[Try Astronomy] Re: Would we like a web calendar?

From: Jenny Morgan <jmorganix@xxxxxxx>
To: tryastronomy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:17:43 -0600
WORKS WELL FOR ME...


Using a Mac OSX 10.3.6, Safari Browser v1.2.4

THANKS!

Jenny


On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:02 PM, John R. Owens wrote:

> Just to make it a bit easier, you should now be able to access the
> calendar as http://calendar.urbanstargazers.homelinux.org/
> I'm not quite sure yet it works properly from the outside world, so if
> someone could post whether or not it works from their computer, I'd 
> much
> appreciate it. :)
>
> John R. Owens wrote:
>> I was thinking it might be handy to have a web calendar that we can 
>> use,
>> both for interesting phenomena and for keeping track of meetings and 
>> the
>> like. So I went ahead and installed one at
>> http://www.ghiapet.homeip.net/WebCalendar/ . I've already loaded it up
>> with a few phenomena and a couple of meetings, and given it a similar
>> look-and-feel to the page at
>> http://www.freelists.org/webpage/tryastronomy . (Just to be on the 
>> safe
>> side, since I borrowed & shrunk the graphics from that page, what's
>> their copyright status?) Anyway, take a look and tell me if it's 
>> useful,
>> and any other relevant feedback. In particular, I'm wondering whether 
>> I
>> should give everyone their own accounts on it (yet another pesky
>> username/password to remember!), or just leave it as is where everyone
>> sees the same calendar.
>> The built-in documentation is kind of spotty, but the main thing I'd
>> point out is that anyone can suggest an event to add to the calendar 
>> by
>> clicking the little screwhead-looking icons in the upper right of each
>> day, and filling in the info. You can use HTML in the full 
>> description,
>> but not in the brief description, or you can just put an URL in the
>> "Event URL" field. And try to give it an appropriate priority and
>> category; I'm intending that 'Meetings' be only for the proper Urban
>> Stargazers' monthly meetings; 'Events' be for other events e.g.
>> AstroFest, perhaps for trips out to darker skies, and for non-natural
>> happenings in space, e.g. things happening in the Cassini mission; and
>> 'Phenomena' for natural astronomical phenomena, e.g. moon phases, 
>> meteor
>> showers, etc. Oh, and the last vital caveat, unless you know what 
>> you're
>> doing and have a special reason, leave "Participants" at just "Public
>> Access", and ignore my various test users that you could choose from. 
>> ;)
>> One less-vital caveat, I haven't gone over the yearly, weekly, or 
>> daily
>> calendar views for making the colours work as thoroughly as I have the
>> monthly view, so they could be downright hideous, or even just
>> invisible. I'll get to that, but meanwhile the month view is your 
>> safest
>> bet.
>> And if you think a web calendar is the most useless thing our club 
>> could
>> want, don't feel afraid to tell me that. ;)
>>
>> --
>> John R. Owens
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