[Vobject] hello, vobject plans

[Matt Price]

Hello everyone,

I've just recently subscribed to this list & Jeffrey suggested I write
& say what I'm working on.  

I'm not a real programmer, just a dabbler.  I've just recently written
an ugly hack that uses data from a .ics file to list events on a set
of wiki pages.  It's a primitive script, and uses a (very) slightly
improved version of the iCal.py module that's floating around on the
web to identify events and their attributes. It's primitive, but it
seems to do what I wrote it for.

I have a slightly more difficult job thatrequires a much improved
nterface, though.  In Ximian Evolution, which I've just started using,
I've grown accustomed to having a bunch of different calendars for
different functions -- so I have one for personal events, one for
meetings, one for lectures and events that I'm organizing or
attending.  I would like to have all of that information available to
me on my Palm Pilot, but evo only allows you to sync a single calendar
with your palm (for good reasons!).  So I'd like to write a script
that amalgamates a bunch of .ics files, preserving somewhere in each
record information about the calendar from which it is originally
derived (e.g., the name that ximian uses -- I'd have to getthis from
the xml files stored in .gconfd/apps/evolution -- and the path to the
original file).  I'd then like to sync that calendar with my palm --
usng either the python-pisock mocule or the pilot-manager software --
and then write the sync'ed data back to the *original* calendar
files.  

To do something like this I want a more robust set of iCal bindings
than iCal.py offers -- I want the python objets I create to be as
information-rich as the files from which they're derived.  So I'm
hopingy o guys will be able to help me out someday!

Anyway, I hope that was coherent -- I'mwriting htis in the middle
ofthe night after putting my cranky baby to sleep!

matt



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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
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