Day 20 - Ruby Advent Calendar 2017 - Build Your Own What’s On / What’s Up Event Calendar from READMEs in (Structured) Text; Ruby Conferences from Around the World and Much More

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Hello,

  welcome back to the Ruby Advent Calendar 2017 [1] - 25 Days
of Ruby Gems / Libraries from December 1 to December 25.

  Let's continue the (talking to myself :slight_smile: on the mailing list)
series on Day 20 with the eventdb [2] library / gem and the whatson
command line tool suite (rubyconf, beerfest, kickoff):

  Build your own What’s On / What’s Up event calendar from READMEs in
(structured) text [...]

   Note: A ready-to-use command-line tool e.g. rubyconf for listing
upcoming ruby conferences & camps is bundled up in the whatson library
& command line tool suite e.g. try:

$ rubyconf

resulting (again) in (†):

   Upcoming Ruby Conferences:

  in 37d Ruby on Ice Conference, Fri-Sun Jan/26-28 (3d) @ Tegernsee,
Bavaria (near Munich / München) > Germany / Deutschland > Central
Europe > Europe
  in 43d RubyFuza, Thu-Sat Feb/1-3 (3d) @ Cape Town > South Africa > Africa
  in 51d RubyConf India, Fri+Sat Feb/9+10 (2d) @ Bengaluru > India > Asia
  in 78d RubyConf Australia, Thu+Fri Mar/8+9 (2d) @ Sydney >
Australia > Pacific / Oceania
  in 85d RubyConf Philippines, Thu-Sat Mar/15-17 (3d) @ Manila >
Philippines / Pilipinas > Asia
  in 86d wroc_love.rb, Fri-Sun Mar/16-18 (3d) @ Wroclaw > Poland >
Central Europe > Europe
  in 92d Bath Ruby Conference, Thu+Fri Mar/22+23 (2d) @ Bath,
Somerset > England > Western Europe > Europe
  in 118d RailsConf, Tue-Thu Apr/17-19 (3d) @ Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania > United States > North America > America
  in 128d RubyConf Taiwan, Fri+Sat Apr/27+28 (2d) @ Taipei > Taiwan > Asia
  in 134d Rubyhack: High Altitude Coding Konference, Thu+Fri May/3+4
(2d) @ Salt Lake City, Utah > Southwest > United
tates > North America > America
  in 156d Balkan Ruby Conference, Fri+Sat May/25+26 (2d) @ Sofia >
Bulgaria > Eastern Europe > Europe
  in 162d RubyKaigi, Thu-Sat May/31-Jun/2 (3d) @ Sendai > Japan > Asia
  in 184d RubyConf Kenya, Fri Jun/22 (1d) @ Nairobi > Kenya > Africa
  in 190d Paris.rb XXL Conf, Thu+Fri Jun/28+29 (2d) @ Paris > France

Western Europe > Europe

  ...

(†): on December, 20th in 2017 :-).

  Happy reading & writing. Cheers. Prost.

PS: You're more than welcome to send in your articles (about your
library / gem of choice) too!

[1] https://planetruby.github.io/advent2017
[2] https://planetruby.github.io/advent2017/20-eventdb

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From: Gerald Bauer
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 9:20 AM
To: Ruby users
Subject: Day 20 - Ruby Advent Calendar 2017 - Build Your Own What’s On / What’s Up Event Calendar from READMEs in (Structured) Text; Ruby Conferences from Around the World and Much More

Hello,

  welcome back to the Ruby Advent Calendar 2017 [1] - 25 Days
of Ruby Gems / Libraries from December 1 to December 25.

  Let's continue the (talking to myself :slight_smile: on the mailing list

Hi Gerald,

No, not just talking to yourself. Great initiative and an enjoyable, educating read. Creating and especially maintaining a ruby gem is a lot of work. So a bit of attention to gems and indirectly their maintainers is always welcome.

Cheers,
Ivo