Just shooting an idea to developers: since most of the events are locked in Facebook, what about a page where people could enter the (public) event url and a script makes all the data available in ical/json or whatever opendata format? At every call it caches the data into a db (IPFS?) and makes it available also on Mobilizon!
Even better making it working also on-the-fly simply passing the ID with the url:
Example facebook.com/events/1234567890123456 ▸ freemyevent.now/events/1234567890123456
This could be also integrated into a Chrome/Firefox extension so users could be the input to build a mirror database in short time, just navigating their fb profiles!
would be totally useful.
about usability, the firefox / chrome addon would add a button on the facebook page so that people would just have to click on it to import the event.
also, handling duplicates and instances would be needed in the addon.
(what mobilizon instance does the user knows? could be detected with cookies or localstorage for ex.)
about link ID @360fun, the ids could be different, we can store somewhere on the mobilizon event a property like “original_URL” so that we avoid doubles.
i feed mitigated about IPFS, looks like not stable yet, but could be useful later.
USYD event calendar looks like a good ressource too.
i suggest to create a repository on framagit and discuss specifications here, and report them in the wiki of the repo
(tell me, and i will add volunteers acces to modify the repo)
We should describe the minimal product first so that we can make it real in a reasonable amount of time.
we would discuss technical ways to achieve that after.
yeah lot of things can be done, we will have to specify the minimal product
to keep an event up to date i suggest to have a property for the event, which is its import URL.
so we may find it with this property and update the event if there is any difference
