Sri Lanka Holiday Calendar Feed

[pathumego]

This is a really small project, but will be really really useful.. a Public Google Calendar could be used I guess.

Or can this be on GitHub pages and serve the iCal (https://github.com/budparr/jekyll-calendar)

[pasindud]

Yea this should be interesting mini project

[pathumego]

i will do the input if someone can set up the site :)

[pasindud]

I'll setup the site
https://github.com/CodeLanka/sri-lanka-calendar

[dhammikamare]

I am maintaining a public calender of Sri Lanka holidays for my use. Hope we can use it. :)
XML: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
ICAL: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
HTML: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Asia/Colombo

Reference: Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs, Sri Lanka

[pasindud]

@dhammika-marasinghe can you make a small script that fetch data from that xml and writes to https://github.com/budparr/jekyll-calendar/blob/master/_data/events.yaml

[ishan-marikar]

This might be of interest to you: https://db.tt/5S4dVa54 .. I use it with my outlook.

[ishan-marikar]

I'll do a bit of research on the structure of ical files and then try my hand at coding a parser for it.

[ishan-marikar]

Well, instead of parsing it, I just converted it into a csv file and then converted that into JSON/XML.

[pasindud]

That works too, the JSON schema must be bit agile, can guys post a example JSON with one event and the metadata.

[ishan-marikar]

[
    {
         "title"  : "National Day",
         "description" : "Independence day of Sri Lanka",
         "start-date" : "2015-02-04",
         "end-date" : "2015-02-04",
         "type" : [
              "Mercantile",
              "Bank"
          ]
    }
] 

What about this?

EDIT: Included start/end data and type

[pasindud]

Start date end Date ( for incase )
Type - Mercantile || Bank (important)

I think this is ok for a base
👍

[pathumego]

Hi Guys!

I think rather than maintaining a Google calendar its better to have this
on GH with GH pages serving the website and the iCal feed, if possible.
That way anyone can fork the repo add a calendar days and send a PR. Or can
use issues.

And options to modify the feed to include the needed days would be awesome.

• Holidays Public
• Holidays Bank
• Holidays Merc.

Other educational and recreational calendars

• Important National Days / Weeks
• Important birthdays
• History

These can be important for apps and blogs.

[pasindud]

The only reason for Google Calendar is to allow non tech people to contribute too, and google kind dose the work of generating xml, json and Ical

[pasindud]

JSON google calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic?&alt=json

[pasindud]

CodeLanka/common-data-sri-lanka#6

[pathumego]

ok I agree, how about rest of the suggestions?

Options to modify the feed to include the needed days would be awesome.

- Holidays Public
- Holidays Bank
- Holidays Merc.

Other educational and recreational calendars

- Important National Days / Weeks
- Important birthdays
- History

[ishan-marikar]

@pathumego @pasindud What about an API that basically does that?
Something like:

../calendar?calendar_type=history&holiday_type=public&from=01011992&to=31122015

(Show all public holidays from the History calendar within the range of 01st of January, 1992 until 31st December, 2015)

[pasindud]

Lets keep holidays file and history as two (separation of concerns)

/history 

from
to

/holiday

from
to
holiday_type

API should also have paging to deal with large set of data.

[ishan-marikar]

calendar/holidays/?from=01011992&to=31122015
calendar/history/?from=01011992&to=31122015

[pathumego]

@pasindud @ishan-marikar guys Im not very well informed about technology, but I can comment on the users angle or UX of the project :)

[pathumego]

ok so to be clear I think there should be 3 kinds (or even more custom kinds?) of events on the non-holiday section as mentioned above.

[pasindud]

you mean something called "other calendar", where stuff that is not a holiday or history goes to ?. if so Good Idea works well 👍

[pathumego]

well, not really, The definition/contents of 'history' is not clear here i guess.

What is clear (and a separate calendar for sure) is - Important National Days / Weeks calendar.( ie: National Dengue Day week, Scouts Job Week)

Rest could be other calendar/ calendars as @pasindud suggests

[pasindud]

Let's maybe work on the holiday and history first to see how this works out.

[pasindud]

@dhammika-marasinghe @ishan-marikar can you guys look into the tech side of this think u have a commit access to the repo's, if not let me know

[prasadsw]

@pasindud What's the status of this project? do we have a proper iCal calendar in place? are we regularly updating it?

[pathumego]

@pahans @pasindud What do we do about this?

[pasindud]

I think @ishan-marikar was going to do something about this

[ishan-marikar]

Yes, I was going to do something about this, but I don't really know what I should do. .___.