I've been reading up on iCal lately, and to my surprise, it's really developing. This may be old news to many of you, but I was really surprised to read that iCal is being used as a method for syndication of "shared" calendar data. Immediately my mind started to work on ways to use this on the EDUCAUSE site.
Of course, when I have a question or a thought about a new technology, I immediately call Matt over to talk. I think the first foray we can take into this arena would be a subscription service to the EDUCAUSE Professional Development events. Next step could be syndicating the Events Calendar. And then it hit me - this could be a perfect mechanism to drive the Events Calendar service!
Here's what I'm thinking (and bear with me, it's "pre-embryonic" at this point). If enough people are syndicating calendars with iCal, I could write an iCal Aggregator that would gather events from all over that may be of interest to the membership, and the higher ed community at large. Instead of relying on staff and the membership to tell us about events via the Events Calendar, we could gather these listings from existing sources, and tell you what's happening! It's a very exciting thought for me.
What do you think? Who do you know that's using this technology? I'm super interested to hear any thoughts or comments on this.
