<h2 id="editors-note-2020-01-02">Editor’s Note 2020-01-02</h2>
<p><small>The notes for this episode have been reformatted, particularly the long-form notes. This was done to make them more readable. Also, the original Git repository has been changed from <em>Gitorious</em> to <em>GitLab</em>.</small><br/>
<small>In 2019 an iCalendar file was placed on the HPR server at <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/HPR_Community_News_schedule.ics">https://hackerpublicradio.org/HPR_Community_News_schedule.ics</a> which you can use in your own calendar application. The file contains the recording times of 12 months of Community News shows and is updated monthly.</small></p>
<h2 id="the-problem">The Problem</h2>
<p>Back in 2012 Ken Fallon tried to use Google Calendar to set up an event for the recording of the monthly <em>Community News</em> shows on HPR. He wanted to set these on the Saturday before the first Monday of the month. Surprisingly he didn’t find a way to do this and ended up deleting the attempt.</p>
<p>I looked at the calendaring application I use: <em>Thunderbird</em> with the <em>Lightning</em> calendar plugin, to see if I could manage it. I also couldn’t find a way.</p>
<p>This episode documents my journey to find a way to make the calendar entries we need.</p>
<h2 id="long-notes">Long notes</h2>
<p>Detailed notes are available for this episode, and these can be <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1286/full_shownotes.html">viewed here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="links">Links</h2>
<ul>
<li>Detailed show notes: <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1286/full_shownotes.html">https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1286/full_shownotes.html</a></li>
<li>My <em>make_meeting</em> script for download - <a href="https://gitlab.com/davmo/hprmisc/blob/master/make_meeting" class="uri">https://gitlab.com/davmo/hprmisc/blob/master/make_meeting</a></li>
<li>Wikipedia iCalendar entry - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar" class="uri">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar</a></li>
<li>iCalendar RFC - <a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5545.txt" class="uri">https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5545.txt</a></li>
<li>pcal PostScript calendar generator - <a href="https://pcal.sourceforge.net/" class="uri">https://pcal.sourceforge.net/</a></li>
<li>Remind - <a href="https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind" class="uri">https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind</a>, <a href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529" class="uri">https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529</a></li>
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