[kronolith] parse remote calenders

[Cliff Green]

Quoting Tim Terlegård <timte878@student.liu.se>:

> >> 2. Every 15th minute cron parses the LUGs'
> >> calenders and stores the events in the database.
> >> When a user enters the page only the database is
> >> queried.
> 
> > I'd do this, using the Data class you'll write, and a
> > custom script that's run via cron.
> 
> Is "Data" a wellknown concept? I don't know it  :-)
> 
> Should the cron scripts be added to Kronolith?
> Should the cron script be editable through Kronolith
> or only editable by the sysadmin?
> 
> I'll check the Horde and Kronolith code and do some
> research.

Have you seen the support for remote calendar files being worked on at the
mozilla project?  It looks like subscribing to those isn't much different from
the way jonah allows one to subscribe to different news channels, using either
http:// or ftp://, and it might make building a driver easier (might.  might not
- I'm not qualified to say), since it looks like the calendar files themselves
are vcal/ical format.  Unfortunately, when I tried importing their sample US
Holidays file into kronolith, (so far) none of the dates show up in my calendar.

See:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

c
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