Posted by Bob Jonkman on 1st November 2013
For the last several years I’ve been hanging out with the
Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge WriMos at various write-ins, trying to absorb some writing talent.
NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, in which people (the WriMos) try to write a 50,000 word novel during the 30 days of November. That’s not as ludicrous as it sounds — 50,000 words over 30 days is only 1667 words a day (with 10 days off for good behaviour, at least, 10 days with only 1666 words). 50,000 words is about the size of Brave New World, which someone once told me was the benchmark for NaNoWriMo (but TIL that Brave New World has 64531 words).
The first year I participated I got a terrific start on my first novel. All 675 words. Last year I got as far as the novel description. 11 words. But this year I have better idea. I’ve got some unfinished blog posts queued up, so I’ll take their word count, flesh them out, count the word difference, and submit that as my daily writing quota. Of course, it’s possible that I’ll edit more out of an incomplete blog post than I’ll be adding, so there’s a very real possibility of a negative word count. If that keeps up I might end up with a deficit at the end of the month. Let’s see how the NaNoWriMo word counter deals with a Buffer Underflow.
Come join me in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge region pages. Here are some handy links for local WriMos:
- See the KWC NaNo calendar, in plain HTML, suitable for printing and framing.
- And if you want to include it in your own calendar software (like Microsof Outlook, Apple iCalendar or Thunderbird Lightning) use this iCal link (.ics file, 7.5 kBytes)
- Or if you have an Atom/RSS feed reader and want new events to pop up in your news stream automatically there’s an feed.
- And if you’re looking to chat in these long, lonely November nights, I’m hanging out (all alone, I might add!) in the KW Nano Chat Room.
- For those of you with an IRC program use the server irc.mibbit.com, select secure (SSL) port number 6697, and tune into channel #kwnano You might be able to click on (or copy’n’paste) the IRC link: irc://irc.mibbit.com:6697/#kwnano to have your IRC program connect automatically.
The NaNoWriMo crest has all rights reserved, and so couldn’t be used here. From their FAQ page: Logo: Please do not use our logo (or parts of our logo) on anything without our permission.
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Posted by Bob Jonkman on 12th October 2012
I’m looking for a free/libre calendar server to run on a GNU/Linux server.
It needs to have CalDAV connectivity, so that I can use Evolution, Sunbird or Thunderbird/Lightning as my only client. Ideally, it will also have a Web interface for both administration and calendar viewing, exports to iCal (.ics) files, supports iMIP, and offers Atom/RSS feeds of calendar items.
Here’s what I’ve found so far. If you know of others, please leave a comment.
There’s also a list at CalConnect’s CalDAV Servers
WordPress Plugins
The other calendars I’ve been trying are WordPress plugins. There is much promise in their description blurbs, but so far I’ve rejected most:
- 11 January 2011
Originally posted
- 26 March 2011
Added Linuxaria’s suggestions
- 16 April 2011
Added WordPress plugin info; added CalDAV column; filled in some attributes
- 11 October 2012
Updated feature list for Zimbra
I’ll be writing a review of Zimbra Open Source Edition soon, detailing some of my experiences (eg. requires Flash for the administrative Web interface)
- 12 October 2012: Put WordPress calendars in table format, added My Calendar
- 5 November 2012: Added Dosch’s suggestions
- 16 November 2012: @Encyclomundist dents about Citadel.org
- 26 September 2013: I’ve started to use ownCloud 5.0 as a calendar repository accessed with Lightning using WebCal. ownCloud doesn’t publish an iCal feed or have a public read-only view, but since it’s Free Software constantly under improvement I’ll stick with it for a while.
- 9 November 2013: I think @postblue turned me on to Baikal: Using #Baikal to sync tasks, contacts and calendars…
- 9 November 2013: I’m now using Timely All-In-One on some blogs, will be upgrading others. It’s not the perfect iCal plugin, but the best one yet.
- 9 November 2013: @McScx and @lxw37 both introduce me to Horde.
- 13 August 2015: Just discovered Blaise Alleyne’s post on Degooglifying (Part IV): Calendar. This is pretty much the same solution I’ve settled on; ownCloud + Thunderbird and Lightning. I’m not quite as advanced as Blaise on the mobile front, though.
This is a “living” post, so it will float back to the top of the blog as I update it.
–Bob.
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