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infra: calendar alternatives #63
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houston dsa seems to use google calendar under the hood, but also renders out a custom calendar with plain text based HTML elements, rather than using a google calendar embed directly like we do
we've opted to abandon the grid calendar and keep it simple, serving something like this https://dsaneworleans.org/events/
check out the calendar subscription documentation here https://www.solidarity.tech/docs/events#calendar-subscriptions
i expect we'd need to drop down into client side rendering here, use js to query the calendar endpoint, then render out the page. alternatively, we could use this as an excuse to make the jump from a static site to a sveltekit web app and pull the query and render up to the server #49
This would add some complexity to the setup, but it may be worthwhile if we really want to dump Google. It seems like we technically do have the ability to run some small apps at our shared server, so I think it's more of a should question rather than a can.
There's two parts to the calendar that we need: the calendar server to publish events, and the calendar UI so people can view it on the website.
Our MFM calendar NextCloud is kind of lacking. It's not very customizable, and we struggled to get it to work smoothly as a subscription calendar.
here's a couple related links that may help as a start, but this plan would need to be fleshed out and discussed before proceeding
https://radicale.org/v3.html
https://fruux.com/