foss event aggregator

Foss Event aggregator is a CLI which is going to create ICalendar(.ics) file to import the events data to our local calendar or google calendar about the events form the following sites

Events Sources

The following websites are our current event sources

• https://foss.events/
• https://fossforce.com/events-calendar/
• https://fossunited.org/events/timeline

ICS Generation Code - from Medium

https://medium.com/simform-engineering/effortless-event-management-with-ics-files-sync-code-and-schedule-b5c62d08d6b5

Packages we are going to use

• argparse
• lxml (or) beautifulsoup for web scrapping

Structure of event we are going to create ics file

Event

• title : (mandatory) title of the event to represent in calendar
• url : (mandatory)
• startDate: event start date
• endDate: event end date (start date and end date can be same if oneday event)
• description : (optional)
• location : (optional)

Contributing

if you find a additional sites to collect the event details reference kindly create a issue