Comments on: A protocol for volunteering opportunities? Part II http://blog.survv.org/2008/08/27/a-protocol-for-volunteering-opportunities-part-ii/ Law's Place on the New Web Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Aerik http://blog.survv.org/2008/08/27/a-protocol-for-volunteering-opportunities-part-ii/#comment-17 Aerik Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:04:25 +0000 http://blog.survv.org/?p=28#comment-17 I would suggestion looking at solving these problems in a broader context, to help build wider spread adoption. I'm working on an initiative to solve one type of volunteer opportunity syndication by promoting broad adoption of feeds for events. In other words, if a volunteer is going to help out at an event, then the event has attributes in common with many types of events, principally location and time. These two attributes are also the items that are missing from typical RSS/Atom feeds. Our vision to solve this is to develop aggregator/search software and share it via an open source license while promoting the use of markup to syndicate event data in computer readable format. Several standards have been promoted for this, including RDF Calendar (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/), Hcalendar, RSS Events, and Xcalendar (links to the last three can be found on the RDF calendar page). Google calendar has an Atom feed with Google Data elements for the location and time - this is what I've first supported in the eventfeed.org prototype. Best Regards, Aerik Sylvan I would suggestion looking at solving these problems in a broader context, to help build wider spread adoption. I’m working on an initiative to solve one type of volunteer opportunity syndication by promoting broad adoption of feeds for events. In other words, if a volunteer is going to help out at an event, then the event has attributes in common with many types of events, principally location and time. These two attributes are also the items that are missing from typical RSS/Atom feeds.

Our vision to solve this is to develop aggregator/search software and share it via an open source license while promoting the use of markup to syndicate event data in computer readable format. Several standards have been promoted for this, including RDF Calendar (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/), Hcalendar, RSS Events, and Xcalendar (links to the last three can be found on the RDF calendar page). Google calendar has an Atom feed with Google Data elements for the location and time - this is what I’ve first supported in the eventfeed.org prototype.

Best Regards,
Aerik Sylvan

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