- From: Mark Tearle <mtearle@tearle.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:17:01 +0800 (WST)
- To: Gary McGath <callist@mcgath.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-calendar@w3.org
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Gary McGath wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >For those of you interested in calendars for public events (Concerts,
> >theatre plays, sports games, religiuos meetings, exhibitions...) there
> >is a new version of the SKiCal specification (which is an iCalendar
> >profile) available at
> >
> >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-many-ical-ski-06.txt
>
> This looks extremely useful! I've been wrapping a Web application
> around Sosigenes (http://www.mcgath.com/sosigenes), with plans for
> commercial marketing, and have increasingly noted deficiencies in trying
> to use iCalendar for calendars of the kind you describe (to which I'd
> add science fiction conventions).
>
> SkiCal is defined only in terms of pure (non-XML) RFC2445, but the
> incorporation of its additional features into a superset of xCal appears
> to be straightforward.
I haven't heard of any implementations as yet (and I suspect most of the
publicly available RFC2445 parsers/libraries would barf on the
properties according to the last spec that I read; not for any bad
reasons though - it's just they wouldn't recognise them as valid/legal)
>
> Is there a mailing list for SkiCal discussions?
>
Yes, http://www.skical.org/eng/maillist_eng.html
It's very quiet as far as I can tell.
Yours
Mark
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