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What I'd want out a calendaring app:

• Event data

  • Title

  • Description

  • Date (start/end time/date)

• Event meta-data

  • Creation date

  • Update date

  • Category

• Flexible: Allows overlapping events.

• Filesystem-based storage

  • To allow use of unison or rsync for off-line editing, then syncing.

  • Storage in standard e-mail storage format. (cf IO::WithHeader::RFC822, Text::Header)

• Publishing

  • HTML

    • Locally and to remote servers

    • Valid XHTML/CSS

    • Multiple formats (montly tabled calendar, yearly Kulkarni-style)

  • RSS

    • Upcoming events

    • Latest edits/updates

    • Category-based

• Interface:

  • Browser-based, HTML.

  • Simplicity above all.

• Encoding: utf-8.

To think about:

• Time-zone considerations

• Pulling in events from other places/RSS feeds

• Authentification

• REST API a la Blosxom

So what I'd want is basically an upgraded version of http://www.calendars.net/ . See http://my.calendars.net/micah/ for an example of a working calendar.

Regarding the REST stuff, here are some sample URLs I'd like to have:

• Display:

  • http://localhost/pipa/ (montly table view, default)

  • http://localhost/pipa/2005 (kulkarni view)

  • http://localhost/pipa/2005/03 (montly table view)

  • http://localhost/pipa/2005/03/26 (daily view)

  • http://localhost/pipa/2005/03/26/cold-fairyland (event view)

  • http://localhost/pipa/rock/ (category view)

• Non-permalink Displays:

  • http://localhost/pipa/?format=month (montly view)

  • http://localhost/pipa/?format=year (kulkarni view)

• RSS

  • http://localhost/pipa/rss (upcoming events RSS feed)

  • http://localhost/pipa/rss/rock

  • http://localhost/pipa/rss/rock,rap

  • http://localhost/pipa/rss/edits

  • No dynamic, 10-year RSS feeds! Limit set in the back-end.

• Edit

  • http://localhost/pipa/edit/2005/03/26

  • http://localhost/pipa/edit/2005/03/26/cold-fairyland