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is there a ics link so i can import the defcon calendar that I see on this website?
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At one time I created an ical export for the forum events, but it was complicated by the need to have each event specify a time-zone. I enabled support for custom calendar fields with values for timezones as a drop-down, but an upgrade of the forum software removed that feature, and broke the export script. I've never resumed work to restore it, and it has never been a priority since people now build a DB from exported events.
We do have a "JavaScript" based export which you can probably use to make your own ics / ical format using your own JavaScript.
The main defcon site does this:
https://forum.defcon.org/images/custom_event/get_upcoming_events_js.php?maxrow=10&HL=1,2,3,4,5, 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
This is straight-forward, or should be. The "maxrow" parameter is the maximum number of items to export, up to some script-included max limit. The HL parameter is an array of integer to describe the "event highlighting" to include in the export. The "Default" highlighting integer is "0" which is all that regular users can set. Integer values greater than "0" can be assigned my mods, or some goons. This is a "sliding window" service which only reveals items in the "Calendar" which have not yet ended. As a result, events that finished before "now();" are not displayed. This works well for the main website to show "upcoming events."
You can try your luck with the javascript export and then convert to whatever format you like. If you look at the color coding included in each row for each HL value, those colors match the color coding used by the forums, so the main site and forums use the same colors. I do not know if info.defcon.org relies on the same color coding. It also include several fields with redundant methods to convey some of the same date/time values, so a consumer of that output may not need to perform date-math work to compute duration, and format the date/time into format needed by various tools, or to fit a web-page.
Please do not abuse this script -- it is only trying to be helpful.
The goon(s) that aggregate all the events for use by https://info.defcon.org/ and Hacker Tracker and the outel take advantage of the forum calendar exports (in a different format.) They use these to help assemble events used in those other resources and confirm scheduling matches what is found in other sources. -
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