A simple application for my custom sorted list of all events in FOSDEM 2021, now updated for FOSDEM 2022.
The last version saved in this repo (Feb 4, 2022, 11pm) can be opened here: https://rawcdn.githack.com/Gys/FOSDEM/10b9be0d1a85abb668abd1c1d83ebf9134f82491/fosdem_schedules.html
- Private: there is no interaction with a server except for (anonymously) loading the page.
- All currently active talks are highlighted. This uses your local time.
- Each talk has a checkbox of which the state is persistent across sessions by keeping them in a cookie. Use these to track your own preferences. The checkboxes state is implemented in pure clientside javascript.
- All times shown are in Belgium (CET) time.
I could not find a list of all presentations sorted by time only. Such list makes it easier to see what is presented at any moment in time. I have my favorite talks, but maybe those are not as expected or I want to fill time for which I have nothing planned myself. This list makes it easy to see current alternatives.
To create my list I deciced to parse the online schedule into a new schedule, sorted by time.
The resulting fosdem_schedules.html has more or less the same styling as the original FOSDEM page.
Make your own list (or process the list otherwise), the code is simple.
First the html of https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/events/ is loaded. Goquery is used to parse the html into a slice with all events. That list is sorted by datetime and finally written to a html file as a table. For clientside tracking of preferences https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie is used.
- Follow each event link to retrieve
#main > div.event-blurb > div.event-abstractfor the event-abstract. To show in dropdown or something. - Adjust times to local time?
- Add date to start/end for better highlighting.
- Export as csv to easily import in other applications.