For those of you who use the Meetup app to schedule events, we're working on importing events from Meetup. This is working fairly well, and we just imported the first batch. Basically this is based on Meetup's rules for what is an "active" Meetup event, which means that the meetup needs to have members and at least 3 people signed up to go to the event. We're currently searching for events within 70 miles of downtown Eau Claire, and putting them into the Chippewa Valley calendar only - this may get more sophisticated over time.
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Rebuilding the Uppitywis Calendar - Update
You may have noticed that since our Drupal 7 transition the calendar has been pretty sparse. There are multiple reasons for this, some of which are more political than technical.
In any case - we're interested in building in a new calendaring infrastructure. It's next on the list of site improvements, along with a readable list of bills in the state legislature. I'd like to ask for your help.
Update -- We've started importing some events from the county parties around the state - this is an experiment, but we'd like to see a common calendar for progressive events in Wisconsin, and we're starting to work on that. Some of this is challenging since most sites don't have importable calendars, and some of the ones that do are subtly broken (time zones are always difficult).
For one - if you know of progressive political events going on in the state, please feel free to submit them here.
Second - if you maintain a calendar of events that is machine readable (that would mean that it puts out an ical feed, or is in Google calendar, or some other reasonable accessible calendar format) and you're willing to let us list your events, please let me know.
And if you have any great new ideas for things for us to do with the site, please let me know that as well.
Steve is a member of LION Publishers , the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce, the Online News Association, and the Local Media Consortium, and is active in Health Dunn Right.
He has been a computer guy most of his life but has published a political blog, a discussion website, and now Eye On Dunn County.
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