<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">TL;DR version</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">From at least 2014 thru March 11, we had redundant calendaring options. <br><ul><li> Publicly shared Google Calendar named  <span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.2px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:nowrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><b><a href="mailto:blu-events@gapps.blu.org" target="_blank">blu-events@gapps.blu.org </a></b></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.2px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:nowrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><b><a href="http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics" target="_blank">http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.2px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:nowrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><b></b> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">On the mailing lists, the latter was offered as an alternative for the latter, for use when the native Gapps Gcal wasn't usable (for unclear reasons) either temporarily or permanently (due to incompatibility).</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">In later mail archives, It looks like i switched to the direct ICS version in 2017 when the Gapps Gcal native got the timezone conversion wrong one month. (IIRC timezone was double deducted; it was a Federico meeting.)<br><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The ICS fetch from <a href="http://blu.org">blu.org</a> last succeeded on 2019-03-11, internally timestamped by <b>cheyenne</b>.<a href="http://blu.org">blu.org</a> .<br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">That seems about right ... probably the last calendar update before it failed.<br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The current server at <a href="http://blu.org">blu.org</a> returns <b>HTTP 500</b> for the ICS URL.<br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">NEXT STEPS</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><ul><li><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">In the short term, I have switched back to the working Gapps native Gcal, and have suggested same to Tom.</span></li><ul><li><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">If any other users are still using the .ics URL, they should also switch back if they can.<br></span></li><li><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Perhaps MGT would prefer to send that email to Announce or Discuss rather than have me write it with my snark?<br></span></li></ul><li><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">In the medium term, JABR should consider restoring the <a href="http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics" target="_blank">http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics</a> functionality on the new server so that <br>(a) we have the backup calendar source that was useful with hiccups in 2014 and 2017 <br>(b) folks who don't use Google can calendar with us.</span></li><li><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">We should probably include text/links to both on the main Calendar page so they're easy to find?<br></span></li></ul><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></div></div>