Yvent.org is the domain for my new venture. I don't yet have a website set up, but I'll pull in one of my CMS packages in the next few days.


Yvent.org is dedicated to extending RSS and ATOM to support event information, such as calendar events. This has to be done, and nobody is doing it. Those that are doing it are doing it wrong. So it looks like I've gotta' be the one to evangelize doing it right... Sigh...

The best way to describe this work is be defining what it is not. It is not mod_event, which was an initial foray into providing event info over RSS1.0. That was done in RDF, and not complete enough to be useful.

It also is not hCalendar micro-formats. Imagine parsing HTML embedded in XML. Really. Yukko.

It also is not iCal. Microsoft invented iCal and it isn't XML and it's not suitable for the modern age.

It also is not 'iCal in RDF'. Somebody actually wrote a spec for this.

What it is - is event information in everyday information feeds, made easy enough that any kid can implement it. This is what led to the success of RSS  in the first place.

I'll be writing an RFC. But so as not to step on any toes, I think it should have it's own space. Maybe I'll just refer to it as  ERSS. That's enough for now. I'll write more as this starts to materialize.