I’ve created an online events calendar for SFContario members and committee here at http://sfcontario.ca/calendar.

The calendar serves two public purposes. It tells everyone where we are planning to be, so that people can ask questions or buy memberships from us in person. And it tells the committee about events we need to be aware of, in order to avoid conflicts. (Or in some cases, to let us know when we need to be in two places at once: Ad Astra and FilKontario are again the same weekend in April this year unfortunately, as are Anime North and Bloody Words in May.)

Although we are listing conventions in our calendar, we’re not intending this to be a convention calendar, i.e. we only plan to list conventions where SFContario members will be available to sell memberships.

It would have been very much simpler to create hand-coded HTML pages than to write a thousand lines of PHP code, but our internal reason for doing this is that the database back end will be used to create our online program database. I’ve been able to do a lot of layout and debugging in a safe and painless setting, which will make creating the program database a lot easier.

So, enjoy, and I hope this is useful to some of you. If you have an event you want us to know about, let us know. We expect a few of our committee members to be working on other conventions, so we’re happy to list concom meetings here for reference. If you are a member of the SFContario concom and you want to be able to add or edit events in the calendar, let me know and I can create a user account.