RSS feed is broken

[pnijjar]

There is an orange "XML" button in the corner which points to http://feeds.feedburner.com/watcamp . There is an RSS feed on that page, but it has not been updated for any event past Oct 7 2015.

Is this breakage related to the Yahoo Pipes end of life? It would be good to have a working RSS feed, but I am not sure the best way to proceed yet.

[pnijjar]

As mentioned in #7, it is possible to use the Google API to generate a feed. I am doing that now in a separate Github project.

My script is written in Python3 with virtualenv . Does the watcamp.com hosting environment support this?

[spaetzel]

WatCamp.com is actually hosted on Amazon S3 right now. But I have a Digital Ocean instance that could easily host it if we moved to something more dynamic.

[pnijjar]

DigitalOcean would be more convenient from my end. But we could make the Amazon S3 work by rewriting the RSS feed in Javascript (which needs to be done for search anyways). The disadvantage is that you have to generate RSS on the fly, which costs more API calls (but the limit is 1 million/day/key, so that should not be a huge consideration). One way in which DigitalOcean would definitely have an advantage would be if we wanted a weekly newsletter feature, which is pretty trivial to code (and which I am working on in the Python RSS codebase). There are some ways that could be generated on the fly as well, I guess, but that would be trickier.

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WatCamp.com is actually hosted on Amazon S3 right now. But I have a Digital Ocean instance that could easily host it if we moved to something more dynamic.

[pnijjar]

I have uploaded the code I have been working on to github: https://github.com/pnijjar/google-calendar-helpers . There are still things I ought to work on (in particular more thorough testing, code to send email from Python, and a practice deployment) but it seems to generate RSS feeds and bodies for email newsletters.