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[Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not true that the team admin can only set up events. The whole team
can, but this is subject to change, as soon as somebody gets around to
changing this (bug 526800).

The LoCo Directory currently exports JSON for all forms of data (team
data, venues, events, etc.) and iCal for events.

If we really want the LD to import data (security implications, etc.) we
should file separate bugs for all these kinds of imports with specific
format descriptions.

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Allow team to import events from an external source
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597592
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Status in LoCo Directory: New

Bug description:
The Belgian LoCo Team already has an event calendar on its website. And I bet many LoCo Teams already have their own calendars managed through various solutions. Currently, the only way to add events to the LoCo Directory is to add have a team admin to add them manually.

This means that if such a team want to maintain it's calendar on the LoCo Directory and duplicate it on its own website, events must be added to the LoCo Directory by a team admin then import these events in their own solutions using the LoCo Directory API. Which require custom code since the LoCo Directory doesn't expose the events information in a any standard format.

It would be nice to have the option to import events and, as a side effect, venues from external sources.

It would probably increase usage of the LoCo Directory as a central community agenda. It also allow the LoCo Directory events management to be kept simple while enabling teams to use more powerful tools if wanted or needed.

It's likely that most solutions used by LoCo team support iCal export to stable URLs so this could be used as input format.