How about a grand for hacking an iCal applet?
Weird. I was staring at the GNOME Clock taskbar calendar today, marvelling at its uselessness, and wondered if there was some alternative, or patch, to have it monitor local and remote iCalendar feeds (like a sort of feed reader for events).
It turns out there’s a recent bounty of $1000 being offered for something very similar. (I don’t care about the Evolution integration, I just want to be able to use remote webcal resources).
You can sort of do something similar with a combination of cron and
the BSD calendar, but public RDF iCal feeds will probably start being as ubquititus as conventional RSS feeds in the next couple of years, either provided directly or, initially, via screenscrapers.
- Release schedules for movies, games, DVDs, comics, books, etc
- Events listings for theatres, art-house cinemas, clubs
- Sporting fixtures
- Personalised TV guides (exported/imported via PVR?)
- Variable religious times
The street, as they say, will find its own uses for things.
