InfoQ

News

InfoQ Announces AgileEvents, a Free International Events Calendar

Posted by Deborah Hartmann on Aug 14, 2007 08:19 AM

Community
Agile
Topics
Agilists are more likely to gather in a pub or cafe to exchange ideas, than to write a formal paper. As a result, the number of small local gatherings held within the international Agile community is staggering - and impossible for a single news site to cover adequately. Therefore, we propose a new resource: the AgileEvents calendar, where service providers and practitioners can search for local or international events - and add their own.

The calendar exists in UpComing.org, a platform with free registration, and which is easy to use. This platform offers readers a number of useful features:
  • click through from InfoQ to UpComing and search by location, for local or regional events!
  • tagging to help find events by topic, since agilists have been known to cross continents and oceans to attend or contribute to small, specialized events.
  • add the RSS feed to your blog aggregator
  • create a code snippet to put this calendar, or your own event calendar, on your website
  • import to your own calendar in iCal format
Further details on these features are on the calendar site.

Events posted on AgileEvents may be commercial, non-profit, small, large, private or public. However, they must provide value to attendees: meetups, classes, conferences, lectures, user groups, etc. The calendar is, at present, unmoderated, but pure marketing events or events not particularly useful for practitioners of Agile methodologies will be removed.

The resulting calendar is also displayed on the InfoQ Agile homepage. We look forward to seeing what everyone is doing!

Related Sponsor

VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. Companies such as Adobe, BBC, CNN, Dow, HP, IBM, Sony and 3M have turned to VersionOne to help deliver greater value to their customers.
Publishing into Google Calendar by Alexandre Barbosa Posted Aug 14, 2007 10:04 AM
Re: Publishing into Google Calendar by Deborah Hartmann Posted Aug 14, 2007 1:50 PM
Re: Publishing into Google Calendar by Bernd Schiffer Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:01 AM
So where is everyone? :-) by Deborah Hartmann Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:17 PM
Re: So where is everyone? :-) by Siddharta G Posted Aug 17, 2007 12:06 AM
Re: So where is everyone? :-) by Deborah Hartmann Posted Aug 17, 2007 5:50 AM
Re: So where is everyone? :-) by Siddharta G Posted Aug 17, 2007 9:30 AM
Well it's started... by Deborah Hartmann Posted Aug 24, 2007 4:04 PM
  1. Back to top

    Publishing into Google Calendar

    Aug 14, 2007 10:04 AM by Alexandre Barbosa

    It would be nice to have a version of this calendar published as a public calendar into Google Calendar.

  2. Back to top

    Re: Publishing into Google Calendar

    Aug 14, 2007 1:50 PM by Deborah Hartmann

    Alexandre, according to UpComing/Yahoo, you can take the iCal feed of AgileEvents and subscribe to it with GCal by following these instructions. If you try it, please let us know how it works!

  3. Back to top

    Re: Publishing into Google Calendar

    Aug 15, 2007 9:01 AM by Bernd Schiffer

    If you try it, please let us know how it works!
    Works great for me! Thanks, Deborah!

  4. Back to top

    So where is everyone? :-)

    Aug 15, 2007 9:17 PM by Deborah Hartmann

    Where are everyone's events? I know, you're all at Agile2007 or (even better) on vacation, or both. Hurry and fill up the calendar - I'm dying to know what everyone is doing! :-)

  5. Back to top

    Re: So where is everyone? :-)

    Aug 17, 2007 12:06 AM by Siddharta G

    There are 3 events organised by the Agile Software Community of India coming up - Link - but I can't find the "add to group" link...

  6. Back to top

    Re: So where is everyone? :-)

    Aug 17, 2007 5:50 AM by Deborah Hartmann

    You need to join the group AgileEvents and then "send to group" will appear on your event page, use that.

  7. Back to top

    Re: So where is everyone? :-)

    Aug 17, 2007 9:30 AM by Siddharta G

    Ah figured it out.. You first need to create the event normally and then send it to the group. I was trying to create the event directly from within the group page.

  8. Back to top

    Well it's started...

    Aug 24, 2007 4:04 PM by Deborah Hartmann

    I see folks have started filling up the Calendar :-D

Educational Content

Bindings, Platforms, and Innovation

This presentation focuses on the Internet and separating myth from fact, history from the future, and the mundane from the imaginative. Bob Frankston presents a vision of what could and should be.

Orchestrating Long Running Activities with JBoss / JBPM

This article explores the use of JBoss and jBPM to implement design solutions that effectively address the issue of orchestrating long running activities.

Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases

This presentation covers the use of graph databases as an optimal solution for data that is difficult to fit in static tables, rapidly evolving data or data that has a lot of optional attributes.

Realistic about Risk: Software development with Real Options

This session introduces Real Options and shows how it can help in running your project. Real Options is a decision-making process that can be used to manage risk.

Communication Flexibility Using Bindings

This article discusses the use of bindings on services and references (including the instance of non-configured bindings) as the means to implement SCA communications in a Web and SOA environment.

Writing DSLs in Groovy

After a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed.

Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management)

IBM Rational and InfoQ present, Scaling Agile with C/ALM, an eBook showing organizations how to become “finely tuned software delivery machines” by enabling team integration and scaling.

Concurrent Programming with Microsoft F#

Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs.