Indy Tech Events Website
I don’t know about you but I’ve got a pretty busy schedule! In about a 1-week period, I will have gone to an IndyNDA meeting, an ITEC conference, an IndyPASS meeting, and an Indy ALT.NET meeting. Trying to get all of these meetings and dates straight is kind of a PITA! Because of that, I just (over the past 5 hours or so) put up www.IndyTechEvents.com as a single site to hopefully consolidate all of the local tech events being put on.
The site is pretty simple and has a forum section and a calendar section. I don’t know how heavy the forums will be used but hopefully the calendar (the main part of it in my little dream world) will be kept up-to-date by the various location user groups and other communities. I plan on giving moderator access to the leaders of the location user groups (and perhaps a representative) so they can be in full control of their events and even any forums focused on their user groups or the technology that their user group focuses on.
I’ve gone ahead and posted all of the June events that I’m aware of but I’m sure I’ve missed some, so if you know of any, please let us know so we can fix it! And if you’re somebody who should have moderator access, let me know and I’ll make it so!
Check it out: http://www.IndyTechEvents.com
-Shane
PS. If I left out your user group, sorry! It’s now 2am and I’m sure I’m sleepier than I should be releasing a new site. 
I think it’d be great if you could add feeds (iCal, gData) from the calendar so we can subscribe in Google Calendar or Outlook. I’d actually suggested this in feedback to IndyNDA or IndyPASS as well, so you may check with them to prevent duplication of efforts.
Brian, that’s a great idea! I’ll have to see if I can get this added! I didn’t see any checkboxes for something like this so it’ll have to be some kind of plugin of some type. I’m sure it exists though. Thanks for the feedback!!
-Shane
hmmm, after doing some research, there is no plugin to do this with the current final release version. I have three options here:
#1. Write my own plugin
#2. Wait until v2.0 goes final (it has that feature)
#3. Upgrade to v2.0 beta
I don’t like #3. It sounds like most of the data would come out of a single table so perhaps I can write a little mod to generate an iCal feed. I’ve never dug into that format so we’ll see how easy/difficult this is to do within SMF’s API. Could be fun but as I’m sure you know, time is one of those valuable resources we never have enough of!
-Shane