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[Nathan Handler <nhandler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the LoCo Directory does gain this support, I think it should not just
import the events from the ical, but actually subscribe to the ical. By
doing that, LoCos would not need to keep importing the ical whenever
they make a change. Instead, the LD would periodically check all of the
icals that it is subscribed to and detect any changes.

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Allow team to import events from an iCal 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 member 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 member then imported on the team website using the LoCo Directory API (or iCal feed, if available). Which require custom code since the LoCo Directory doesn't expose the events information in a any importable 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.