LibrePlanet talk: Teams/New

This should be documented on a separate page, as not to overload people:

Create a local calendar for the team, and link it to the official LibrePlanet calendar

In order to be able to promote the events that your LibrePlanet will attend or organize, it is highly recommended that you have a calendar. Fortunately, MediaWiki already provides such facility for us.

Before creating your team's calendar, it is recommended that you come up with a name for the link. Again, using LibrePlanet São Paulo's example, we decided again to use our initials in uppercase, i.e., LP-BR-SP. So, having decided that, all you need to do is:

• Go to http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Event:YOURGROUPNAMEHERE , obviously replacing YOURGROUPNAMEHERE by the name you have decided earlier (e.g., in our case, it is http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Event:LP-BR-SP ).
• Create the page, adding the following line to it: <calendar name="Events of YOURGROUPNAMEHERE" /> , again replacing YOURGROUPNAMEHERE by what you have chosen earlier. Note that the calendar name can be actually any text, and the LibrePlanet São Paulo group has even written it in pt_BR. Also please don't forget to include [[category:Events]] at the bottom of the page, so that your calendar will be listed in the appropriate category.
• Save the page. After that, if everything went OK, you should be able to see your calendar.
• Now, make the official LibrePlanet calendar track yours. Go to the Event:LibrePlanet page, clink in the "Edit" link, and:
  • Inside the <calendar>, edit the subscribe parameter to include your team's calendar. This can be done by adding a comma at the end of the parameter, and then adding Event:YOURGROUPNAMEHERE/Events of YOURGROUPNAMEHERE to the list. So, if the <calendar> looked liked this: <calendar name="LibrePlanet" subscribe="Event:FSF/Free Software Foundation Events,Event:Richard_Stallman/Richard Stallman (RMS) Speeches,Event:LP-BR-SP/Eventos do LibrePlanet São Paulo" />, it should now look like this: <calendar name="LibrePlanet" subscribe="Event:FSF/Free Software Foundation Events,Event:Richard_Stallman/Richard Stallman (RMS) Speeches,Event:LP-BR-SP/Eventos do LibrePlanet São Paulo,Event:YOURGROUPNAMEHERE/Events of YOURGROUPNAMEHERE" /> .
  • Don't forget to add your team's calendar link to the Subscribed Calendars section too.

If you already had events scheduled in your team's calendar, you should now be able to see them in the LibrePlanet calendar too. However, if your team's calendar is empty, then nothing visible will happen, so we recommend that you schedule at least one "dummy" event just to test the feature.