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Joshua Meyers (Jun 17 2020 at 14:48):It seems that the CT calendar linked to here (https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/04/category_theory_calendar.html) actually links to the new ACT wiki. Can someone fix this?
Joshua Meyers (Jun 17 2020 at 14:48):Also, how do I get to the CT calendar?
Joshua Meyers (Jun 17 2020 at 14:52):Update: I found it: https://teamup.com/ksfss6k4j1bxc8vztb
David Tanzer (Jun 17 2020 at 18:32):@Daniel Geisler Are you maintaining this calendar? If so, we can link to it from ACT Wiki home page.
cc: @[Mod] Morgan Rogers
Daniel Geisler (Jun 17 2020 at 18:36):@David Tanzer I neither maintain any calendars or any other resources at the moment. I don't even know who manages the different calendars. Sorry.
Daniel Geisler (Jun 17 2020 at 18:37):Hey, could the different managers of calendars speak up?
Morgan Rogers (he/him) (Jun 17 2020 at 19:13):This was a service that Daniel kindly volunteered to set up but which no one else has taken independent responsibility over apart to ask for particular events to be added, as far as I know. If it could somehow be set up such that events can be pushed/submitted to it/edited by members of the community on a password-protected page, that would probably minimize the individual responsibility, but I have little concept of the set-up cost of such a system.
@John Baez, @Paolo Perrone and possibly @David Spivak are/were responsible for recent or upcoming seminars that were hosted on the calendar, so as far as its contents go, they seem sensible folks to ask.
John Baez (Jun 17 2020 at 19:16):Joshua Meyers said:
It seems that the CT calendar linked to here (https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/04/category_theory_calendar.html) actually links to the new ACT wiki. Can someone fix this?
That's my blog article, so only I can fix it.
John Baez (Jun 17 2020 at 19:26):I see, someone changed what the URL
points to. Now it points to the new wiki.
David Tanzer (Jun 17 2020 at 19:30):I am a relative newcomer to this community, and am just catching up on things. I only heard about this calendar service a couple of days ago. Just to get clear, @Daniel Geisler , if some calendar managers come up with new data, is this service still available to them?
Nathanael Arkor (Jun 17 2020 at 19:33):There's an admin link to the calendar, which can be used to add new calendars, or modifying existing events. It would be helpful if someone volunteered to take responsibility for it, e.g. made sure it was kept up to date.
John Baez (Jun 17 2020 at 19:35):I find the calendar somewhat mystifying. I don't know who can change it, and how, etc.
Daniel Geisler (Jun 17 2020 at 19:35):I'm helping with administrative matters and happy to help with the calendars.
Nathanael Arkor (Jun 17 2020 at 19:37):John Baez said:
I find the calendar somewhat mystifying. I don't know who can change it, and how, etc.
There's a link, which is available to anyone subscribed to #seminars calendar. Once you visit that link, you are able to add new calendars, or modify existing entries.
Nathanael Arkor (Jun 17 2020 at 19:37):If there was a landing page for the community, this information could go there too.
David Tanzer (Jun 17 2020 at 20:05):I just created a wiki page called Calendars, and started it out with the above link to the CT calendar ("CT seminars, conferences & community events").
David Tanzer (Jun 17 2020 at 20:06):You will see a quick link to the Calendars page on the main page of the ACT wiki: https://wiki.functorialwiki.org/act/show/HomePage.
David Tanzer (Jun 17 2020 at 20:08):If any new calendars get created, can somebody add them to the Calendars page. Thanks
Daniel Geisler (Jun 17 2020 at 21:21):@David Tanzer I can help with adding calendars to the Calendar page.
John Baez (Jun 18 2020 at 06:20):Good! We've got to get people in the habit of using the wiki. I'll figure out some things to do with it.
David Tanzer (Jun 18 2020 at 20:35):@Daniel Geisler Thanks for the clarifications, and the offer of help. At the moment it doesn't seem like there's much to do on the wiki for calendar data management, but who knows what might turn up in the future. Conceivably it could become helpful as a place for staging and organizing data, prior to an admin loading it into the calendar - time will tell.
David Tanzer (Jun 18 2020 at 20:39):By the way, for a lightweight but user-editable calendar, Markdown tables can be used right in the page source. For example see this calendar by @Jacques Distler .
David Tanzer (Jun 18 2020 at 20:47):On the other hand, @Daniel Geisler , if you're interested in helping to build the wiki, there is substantive work to be done for the conferences and seminars page. So as not to hijack the calendars thread, I will collect my notes and start a new topic elsewhere. -Best
Daniel Geisler (Jun 18 2020 at 20:49):@David Tanzer Sounds like a valid good deed. :slight_smile:
David Tanzer (Jun 18 2020 at 22:03):@Nathanael Arkor What package is being used for this calendar server? The output is nice.
Nathanael Arkor (Jun 18 2020 at 22:04):It's a teamup calendar: https://teamup.com/ksfss6k4j1bxc8vztb.
Joshua Meyers (Jun 19 2020 at 15:23):I still think people should fix the original issue, that the link to the calendar links to the wiki instead, in one of two ways: either make categorytheory.world point to the calendar again, or change the link in https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/04/category_theory_calendar.html and https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/category-theory-calendar/ to something that points to https://teamup.com/ksfss6k4j1bxc8vztb.
Right now it is hard for people to find the calendar who don't have access to Zulip. (I ultimately managed to find it only by searching in here.)
John Baez (Jun 19 2020 at 18:53):Joshua Meyers said:
I still think people should fix the original issue, that the link to the calendar links to the wiki instead, in one of two ways: either make categorytheory.world point to the calendar again, or change the link in https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/04/category_theory_calendar.html and https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/category-theory-calendar/ to something that points to https://teamup.com/ksfss6k4j1bxc8vztb.
I fixed the first of these because you asked me to.
I will now fix the second, because you have now asked me to do that too.
It's a bit odd to talk about "people" when it's just me who is writing these blog articles. I'm the only "people" who can do this stuff.
John Baez (Jun 19 2020 at 18:56):Maybe you think I have a team of people working for me? :upside_down:
Joshua Meyers (Jun 21 2020 at 21:12):Thanks! I said "people" because if the second of the two ways was chosen, it would have been someone other than you, but I agree it was awkward.
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Jun 25 2020 at 08:57):I'm the admin of the teamup calendar, but I don't/can't manage urls pointing to it
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Jun 25 2020 at 08:57):Plus the admin link is public-ish
Daniel Geisler (Jun 26 2020 at 01:20):@Matteo Capucci I can assign the categorytheory.world URL to you.
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Jun 26 2020 at 08:07):Thanks Daniel, but there's no need to!
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Jun 26 2020 at 08:07):I think it suffices to point directly to the teamup calendar
John Baez (Sep 16 2020 at 21:08):@Matteo Capucci - I just learned there's a category theory seminar series called the The New York City Category Theory Seminar, which is not listed on your calendar:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
John Baez (Sep 16 2020 at 21:08):They are meeting today, September 16th, at 07:00 PM Eastern Time.
John Baez (Sep 16 2020 at 21:08):Future meetings are also listed on this webpage!
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Sep 16 2020 at 22:48):Great!
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Sep 16 2020 at 23:09):So, I manually added all the talks listed so far. It'd be great to have an heads up when new info comes through. Do you know any of the organizers?
John Baez (Sep 17 2020 at 00:01):I know Noson Yanofsky, who seems to be the boss of this. Is there an email address I should have him contact?