Portland's Calagator Application

[vschmidt94]

Here’s the deal on Portland’s app:

Their site is: http://calagator.org/

github repo: https://github.com/calagator/calagator

Actually, it looks pretty slick for what we were discussing. Currently in Ruby on Rails - next release is supposed to be Ruby 3.0, but aside from some maintenance work, it doesn’t look like a lot of updates happening. i.e., if it works, don’t fix it more.

The app is under MIT license, with local roll-outs encouraged.

It does appear to do some scraping of sites like meet up, and other feeds / sites that use the hcal or ical format.

[wryenmeek]

thanks for looking into it! I came across this in a Brigade Usergroup for a similar topic. http://ask-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/01/25/0430225/ask-slashdot-events-calendar-software-for-local-community

mind having a gander at the apps discussed in there and bringing any to our attention you think are noteworthy?

[vschmidt94]

I skimmed the replies - but most were related to developing a calendar for a specific community - use Drupal or Joomla (shudder) and then the usual SlashDot smackdown or two.

The one thing that stood out was OpenAtrium - which isn't for this particular project, but something I had never seen before as a open source group collaboration platform. Might be interested to keep that in your back pocket if CFG Brigade needs something bigger than what we can do on GitHub here.

Calagator did pop up in discussion as an aggregator.

[allella]

OpenAtrium is a big bulky, but Adam (our sales guy) was able to prototype a
working food pickup and delivery system for Loaves and Fishes that they
used for many months until we built a more full featured
https://reporting.loavesandfishesgreenville.org/.

So, OpenAtrium can do a heck of a lot by clicking.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Vaughan Schmidt notifications@github.com
wrote:

I skimmed the replies - but most were related to developing a calendar for
a specific community - use Drupal or Joomla (shudder) and then the usual
SlashDot smackdown or two.

The one thing that stood out was OpenAtrium - which isn't for this
particular project, but something I had never seen before as a open source
group collaboration platform. Might be interested to keep that in your back
pocket if CFG Brigade needs something bigger than what we can do on GitHub
here.

Calagator did pop up in discussion as an aggregator.

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[allella]

Seems like this this is a combo of aggregator REST API and end-user calendar tool.

If nothing else, the Models (Robots), Views (Schema) and REST controller logic should save some time on thinking through gotchas.

Models (Robots)
https://github.com/calagator/calagator/tree/master/app/models/source_parser

Views
https://github.com/calagator/calagator/tree/master/app/views/events

REST Controller
https://github.com/calagator/calagator/blob/master/app/controllers/events_controller.rb