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

["John R. Owens" <jowens.urbansg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point, I was most worried about it working at all, or whether my 
router took over and delivered its configuration page, but I forgot to 
copy over the images to the new directory I decided to make for this. 
Should be all better now.

Rebecca Sher wrote:
> The calendar works great but I can't see the logos.  Could be my work
> computer.
> 
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> 
> 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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