Thanks to the efforts of program chair Rael Dornfest (and some help from Peter, too), we have a handy expermental iCal version of the O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference schedule.
Just fire up iCal, go to the Calendar menu and choose Subscribe. For URL, enter https://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/macosx.ics
You may want to adjust your iCal views a bit — in the default interface, it can be difficult to work with time slots that hold several sessions. Turning the “show search results” panel may help, as you’ll be able to see the sessions as a list. And the “show info” option will let you change the default color or refresh interval for the calendar itself. You can also use the info panel to show more details about each session.
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Enjoy!
Any questions or suggestions? We’d love to hear them!
Nice job with the calendar and note for other time zones
Nice work with the iCal -- we can all walk around the conference with our schedules on our iPods.
If you're not from the west coast, don't freak when you get your Mac OS X schedule, the times are correct in local time. Those of us on East coast time looking at the schedule for September 30th might note that the Tutorials run from 11:45 am - 3:15 pm and from 4:30 pm - 8:15 pm. Of course, once we arrive in Santa Clara and reset our TiBooks on west coast time the sessions will run (as expected) from 8:45 - 12:15 and 1:30-5:15. I'll admit it makes planning my schedule feel a little funny.
iCal experts can maybe answer a couple of quick questions: (1) with overlapping events, is there an easy way to move from one to another so that you can flip through them, (2) with a read only calendar, how can you prioritize events (it would be nice to mark the session I most want to go to at a given time)
Thanks again for putting the time into producing an iCal of the show.
Daniel