apocalendar.today and publicdata.events is a an initiative to stay up to date with things using open calendar protocols. I live in Amsterdam and wanted to keep track of openings and things happening in town without relying on social media in the simplest way possible.
The project is currently a form of working concept, and I'm about to take the next step with it. Before I do that, I wanted to use these 60 minutes to first quickly invite you to try it out, then open up the discussion how to continue.
Here is a 1-minute video introduction aimed to recruit art spaces in Amsterdam: https://apocalendar.today/about
To introduce the proposal to create a public foundation of data based on the simple iCalendar format as a way to stay up to date without having to compete or engage with social networks. It's an alternative strategy to sidestep the network effect. I hope to introduce this as a strategy to see what others interested and like-minded parties would think of it.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:There are many open questions I'd like to discuss. Lets say this takes off - how do we manage thousands of calendars? Should we create some kind of big wiki database for public editing with various degrees of trust or is that risking things to become more centralized? How do we organize the meta data or is that a separate concern from tying calendars to a domain name?
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:I'll make it into a talk that you can follow and do it yourself at the same time or just listen in. I'm hoping half the time will be a discussion about where to take this project if/once it scales up and not only showcasing what I've done so far. So max 30 minutes workshop and hopefully 30 minutes discussion about the future.
Designer/developer. Part time tutor at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands