| Hi future-looking folks, I've prototyped a setup for this: an ordinary gmail account, bapc submit gmail com, running Google Apps scripting. It has a calendar "BAPC" that you can subscribe to at this link. The scripts process submissions by email and add them to the calendar automatically. For example, I sent the following email to that address with subject line "BAPC submission":
About a minute later, it replied with a confirmation email and created a calendar event. The system also sends a weekly digest email (currently configured to send directly to me, but obviously we should change this to go to the listserv). If I trigger that right now, with the one event in the system, it looks like this:
The goal here is to preserve fully email-based access (e.g. for people who don't use Google calendars) in an automated way, while also providing a modern calendar subscription option for anyone who finds that useful. This is just an ordinary free Google account, and the setup should be very stable with no human intervention needed—we can just pass down the login to the account itself for any reconfiguration or modifications. There are some obvious todos (like adding delete operations, filtering to a certain set of email addresses that are allowed to submit, etc.). Broadly, though, any thoughts on this setup for BAPC going forward? Best, Ben
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