[Imc-web] Can IMC users post to ucimc.org "upcoming events"? Or, other ways to post a calendar?

[Mike Lehman]

Stuart,
I can answer the question that is about our web editing policies. The 
other part if over my head, as I am just an editor, not a techie.

The Upcoming Events newswire is intended precisely for advertising event 
announcements. It is a resource that is somewhat limited, in that we 
have it set to allow 5 entries before the older ones scroll off the 
page. As part of our editing protocols, we generally add the date to the 
front of the title, if those posting do not, to make it more useful to 
readers.

All you need to do to use it is follow the "Publish!" link, then at the 
publish page, select "Story," then select the "Time and Date of Event" 
option when posting. This will then place the announcement into 
"Upcoming Events." If we see what is obviously a local event 
announcement posted elsewhere, we typically move it up to there, in case 
someone forgets to classify it properly when posted.

Please feel free to post your event announcements there, as this is what 
it's intended for.
Mike Lehman

Stuart Levy wrote:
> In AWARE we've been talking about keeping track of all the peace-
> and anti-racism events being scheduled by various groups,
> and have at least one person willing to post them to a central place,
> if we have a mechanism to make it easy.
> (Editing HTML files wouldn't be easy for him.)
>
> Two options I can see:
>
>    - Would it be appropriate to post things like these to the
>      "upcoming events" list on the left side of www.ucimc.org?
>      If so, how do people do that?  Digging around the web site,
>      I didn't find a way to enter them.  Does it get done by the
>      site admins?
>
>    - I see that among the available drupal modules is one called "Event",
>      which I trust is intended for this kind of thing -- right?
>
>      Our group's web site, www.anti-war.net, is already hosted on zeco.  
>      If we wanted to use drupal with Event on anti-war.net,
>      should we install our own copy of drupal, with its own Event module,
>      etc., or could we piggyback somehow on the existing drupal setup?
>  
> thanks
>
>    Stuart Levy
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