Freezing Saddles Calendar

[consularrider]

You mean if I post events to the calendar someone might actually come to Europe and ride with me?

[jrenaut]

@consularrider 148974 wrote:

You mean if I post events to the calendar someone might actually come to Europe and ride with me?

Better chance if you post events than if you don’t.

[akbald01]

Google calendars are great. Once you make them public anyone can subscribe (ical, html, outlook) and from my experience it syncs well with other calendars out there (to phones too). You can also embed the calendar on a webpage to show the whole thing by month, week, agenda.

Happy to volunteer a bit to set this up. I could then add follow managers to add the events, but I’m not sure how public all of the add event options can be (i.e. anyone to add vs. just managers).

Sample: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ht47ghmcru06j4naut1edj2dr8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

If someone sends me their email address we could test it out.

[Steve O]

Okay. ak baldy never responded to my PM, so I did a Googley-oogley and figured it out.
I sent an invitation to a number of you to join the Freezing Saddles Official-ish Calendar.

If it looks like it’s going to work, then we can invite everyone who signs up. The calendar is public, so it should be viewable and findable by anyone. However, I think you need to be invited in order to post events. Those of you who received an invite may invite others; it’s open-ended. I have no problem allowing everyone to post events; I don’t think it needs special moderation.

Here are instructions for how to embed on the website. So if some techie wants to grab this and take off hozn’s plate, please do.
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/41207?hl=en

[cvcalhoun]

I got one of the invitations. However, it wasn’t a link to the calendar itself, but an invitation to add it to my Google calendar. There is no way I want to do that, because it would add a bunch of events I don’t want to go to, and make me less likely to see the ones I do. Is there a way just to get to the calendar, rather than adding it to mine?

[Steve O]

@cvcalhoun 149562 wrote:

I got one of the invitations. However, it wasn’t a link to the calendar itself, but an invitation to add it to my Google calendar. There is no way I want to do that, because it would add a bunch of events I don’t want to go to, and make me less likely to see the ones I do. Is there a way just to get to the calendar, rather than adding it to mine?

The way I manage my calendars is I just turn them on and off. I have about 6-7 calendars and I turn them off as necessary. Click where the red circle is. To see just the FS calendar, turn yours off and it on. To just see yours, turn it off and yours on.
This is just one way to manage them. I do not know if there are other ways.

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Also, if it gets embedded on the FS website, then presumably it would be accessible from there, at least for viewing.

[Steve O]

I believe this is the correct link to the Official-ish calendar.

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=r9c8p7jlhjjiklafkketl1jqps%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

I will send an invitation to all the registrants I have not yet sent one to once registration fills up. The calendar, though, is public, which means anyone may view it.

[Steve O]

I have now shared the Google calendar with all the email addresses of the officially registered players.

Not everyone is familiar with how to use a Google calendar, so there have been some boo-boos. Specifically, some have been deleting events. Note that if you delete an event in a shared calendar like this, it is deleted for everyone, not just you. (for instructions on how to use a shared Google calendar, click here)

I have given everyone total rights to add, edit, delete and otherwise alter the calendar, including sharing with new people. I did this because I would like it to be crowd-sourced, and because I don’t want to have to moderate everything myself. I believe there will be a shake-out period as people figure it out.

In the meanwhile, you should now have access to the Freezing Saddles Official-ish Calendar. If you want to use a different email address, then share the calendar with yourself at the other address (or PM me with the correct email address if that confuses you). Feel free to add pertinent events to the calendar.

[cvcalhoun]

@Steve O 150966 wrote:

I have now shared the Google calendar with all the email addresses of the officially registered players.

Not everyone is familiar with how to use a Google calendar, so there have been some boo-boos. Specifically, some have been deleting events. Note that if you delete an event in a shared calendar like this, it is deleted for everyone, not just you. (for instructions on how to use a shared Google calendar, click here)

I have given everyone total rights to add, edit, delete and otherwise alter the calendar, including sharing with new people. I did this because I would like it to be crowd-sourced, and because I don’t want to have to moderate everything myself. I believe there will be a shake-out period as people figure it out.

In the meanwhile, you should now have access to the Freezing Saddles Official-ish Calendar. If you want to use a different email address, then share the calendar with yourself at the other address (or PM me with the correct email address if that confuses you). Feel free to add pertinent events to the calendar.

Why does Vienna Thursday Coffee Club keep meeting at both 7:10 and 7:15 on the same day?

[AlanA]

@Steve O 150966 wrote:

I have now shared the Google calendar with all the email addresses of the officially registered players.

Not everyone is familiar with how to use a Google calendar, so there have been some boo-boos. Specifically, some have been deleting events. Note that if you delete an event in a shared calendar like this, it is deleted for everyone, not just you. (for instructions on how to use a shared Google calendar, click here)

I have given everyone total rights to add, edit, delete and otherwise alter the calendar, including sharing with new people. I did this because I would like it to be crowd-sourced, and because I don’t want to have to moderate everything myself. I believe there will be a shake-out period as people figure it out.

In the meanwhile, you should now have access to the Freezing Saddles Official-ish Calendar. If you want to use a different email address, then share the calendar with yourself at the other address (or PM me with the correct email address if that confuses you). Feel free to add pertinent events to the calendar.

I don’t think I deleted any events (at least not that I was aware of). But I did delete the email thinking it was spam/malware since I didn’t recognize the sender. Next time I’ll know better.

But maybe it might be a better idea to use a better subject or description for us unwary newbies.

[cvcalhoun]

Testing

[ltierstein]

@cvcalhoun 149562 wrote:

I got one of the invitations. However, it wasn’t a link to the calendar itself, but an invitation to add it to my Google calendar. There is no way I want to do that, because it would add a bunch of events I don’t want to go to, and make me less likely to see the ones I do. Is there a way just to get to the calendar, rather than adding it to mine?

I asked the same question. Not possible, using Google Calendar. The best I could figure out was:
– Accept the invitation to share the calendar
– Look at the calendar, superimposed on/cluttering up your own calendar(s). Note any event that you really want to see on your calendar, and copy it to your calendar
– Go to your calendar Settings and undisplay the Freezing Saddles calendar. You can always get back to calendar and temporarily display it, if you want to see if there are any new events that you’re interested in.

[Steve O]

@ltierstein 151024 wrote:

I asked the same question. Not possible, using Google Calendar. The best I could figure out was:
– Accept the invitation to share the calendar
– Look at the calendar, superimposed on/cluttering up your own calendar(s). Note any event that you really want to see on your calendar, and copy it to your calendar
– Go to your calendar Settings and undisplay the Freezing Saddles calendar. You can always get back to calendar and temporarily display it, if you want to see if there are any new events that you’re interested in.

There is a plan to have the calendar shown on the Freezing Saddles home page, so that anyone can see it there. It’s a public calendar, so it can be viewed by anyone.

My intent is to share it with all, so that teams and individuals can add their rides, get-togethers and other events directly to the calendar without needing to go through a moderator.

As ltierstien pointed out, you can display and hide the calendar at will, so it doesn’t need to clutter up your personal calendar. And you can copy events that you want to always see to your personal calendar.

[mathildepiard]

@cvcalhoun 149562 wrote:

I got one of the invitations. However, it wasn’t a link to the calendar itself, but an invitation to add it to my Google calendar. There is no way I want to do that, because it would add a bunch of events I don’t want to go to, and make me less likely to see the ones I do. Is there a way just to get to the calendar, rather than adding it to mine?

Chiming in to add to this as well. I actually am already an active user of Google Calendar. But now, I have a zillion events on my calendar for stuff like coffee clubs that are far, far away from where I live or work and that I never plan on attending (and other things cluttering up my schedule). These are now also showing up on my iPhone calendar too, and sending me push notifications telling me I should head out by xx time to arrive in time (which also interferes with actual push notifications for say work meetings). Gah! I appreciate the effort to be thorough, but I’d really rather not have all these on my calendar. I would like to get the “actual” Freezing Saddle events (like the opening happy hour) but not all the rest por favor. However, if I remove the calendar from my own account to get rid of the superfluous invites, I’m worried I will miss the invites I actually do want. Please let me know if that’s my only option, and I’ll just remove it and stop my whining and accept the risk of missing events I should be going to.

TL;DR: I wouldn’t mind (and would in fact greatly appreciate) an actual “official” Freezing Saddles calendar, or even better, specific event invites I can opt-into by rsvping / accepting, but I would strongly prefer not having an “officialish” calendar.

[chuxtr]

How do I add an event to the calendar? I have a Google account but don’t actually use Google calendar. And the email I’m using for Freezing Saddles is Yahoo. Thanx!

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