eventdb

Take a spreadsheet and convert it to an ics-file.

Prerequisites

Perl http://www.perl.org/
remind http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
rem2ics https://github.com/scy/rem2ics
rem2html https://github.com/SwissKid/rem2html
make https://www.gnu.org/software/make/

Installation

$ mkdir events
$ cd events
$ git clone https://github.com/TabTwo/eventdb.git
$ git clone https://github.com/scy/rem2ics
$ git clone https://github.com/SwissKid/rem2html

Sourcefiles

remind-scripts for repeating events like Valentine's Day
.csv files for your events

CSV-format

I use quite a simple format here

D;M;Y;D;M;Y;Name;Location;City,Country,URL

Just place your file(s) in the source directory.

Remind-scripts

Remind is an awesome swiss army knive for calendars and alarms. Especially for repeating things like "every last friday of the month", try that with cron. The only problem is, it does not work well with "event lasts from 1.sep to 10.oct". Thouse events should be put in the csv. I also use remind here as processor for the html-calendar and for the ics.

Output

events-ikiwiki.csv, use it with events.mdwn in ikiwikis table directive https://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/table/
events-remind.rem, a basic remind-script with all events
events.ics, import it to your calendar
events.html, a html calendar

Scripts

Makefile, the glue for everything. Replace it with a shell script according to your needs.

Directories

output, grab your results from here
scripts, this is where the magic happens
source, put your files here
temp, staging directory for scripts

Future Versions

I'm not happy with the ics, basically it's just the date and the name of the event.
export to org-mode
import of ics-files

1.8 KiB Raw Blame History