Need: better automation of events calendars in the region

Just Imagine, if you had a program that would go out and get all the events from all these Activists' Calendars and arrange them on your computer so that you could see it in a rational way, including locations, and topical interest areas.

For example, I am interested in a separate list of the events, for every future day, and I want them ranked 1,2,3... according to my formula for geographic distance and the subjects I am interested in, such as war and peace, imperialism, economic reform. etc.


http://www.scn.org/activism/calendar/

http://www.seattleactivism.org/

http://eatthestate.org/13-18/ActivistCalendar.htm

http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/calendar_iframe.taf?page=1

http://www.seattlediy.com/calendar/

http://eventful.com/seattle/events?t=Future&sort_order=Date&c=politics_activism

http://www.trumba.com/calendars/SeattleCAN

http://www.iloveseattle.org/networking-guide/group-tools-resources/seattle-event-calendars.asp

http://www.seattle.gov/calendar/

http://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+site%3Atrumba.com&num=30

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+site%3A.trumba.com%2Fevents-calendar%2Fwa%2F&num=30

http://www.seattleweekly.com/events/category/politics-activism-458040/

http://capitolhillseattle.com/events

http://calendar.thenewstribune.com/search?acat=&new=n&search=true&sort=0&srad=12&srss=50&ssrss=5&st=event&svt=text&swhat=&swhen=&swhere=seattle&trim=1&cat=2



I do not advocate merging all the separate calendars into one. That would be a terrible situation. Its operator would soon know more about you than Google!!



I do however, advocate that all calendars should publish electronic interfaces and make their calendars machine readable with standard syntax. Thereby, anybody who wanted to keep up with what's happening could have our computers come and fetch the events/dates automatically like we do with RSS for our RSS readers or news aggregators.



There have been a lot of standards for publishing Calendar events, over the years.



http://xml.coverpages.org/iCal.html


http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar


http://www.bedework.org/bedework/


http://www.imc.org/pdi/