Drupal Calendaring, A Technological Solution

The Technology Suite

Solving the calendar problem.

The Problems

I have this event that...Happens on every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 and 4 pm,Except for Thanksgiving,And on the first Friday of December at 3 pm.

Event Instance Custom DetailsFor example, you have a special guest speaker.

SearchWith saved searches and short names (example.com/s/abc123).

Moving Events Between Sites

A ChallengeBuilt it to be reusable by others.

The Solution

iCalendar (iCal) Specificationhttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

http://drupal.org/project/ical

Saved Searches

• Search with facets.• Saved searches with short urls (example.com/s/abc123).• Saved searches with names (example.com/s/myEvent).• Lots of management options and permission settings.• Works with core search, Lucene, and Solr.

Many to One on Change

Atomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)

PubSubHubbubhttp://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub

Pushinghttp://drupal.org/project/push_hubhttp://drupal.org/project/views_atom

Receivinghttp://drupal.org/project/feedshttp://drupal.org/project/feeds_atom