[Remind-Fans] rem2html AND rem2ics

[Ralph J. Mayer]

Hi,

I have a little collection of .rem files with all sorts of events like concerts or hackermeeting.
Previously this was a single Markdown-file and a bunch of scripts to create a webpage in my blog.

I wanted to take it a step further an thought, why not use Remind to create the webpage.
Plus, it could also create an ics-file, right?

Turns out, well ...

For the HTML part, I can use rem2html, to get the links to the event it looks like this:
REM 18 JUL 2014 SPECIAL HTML <P><A HREF="http://x.hope.net/">Hope Konferenz</A> </P>
REM 19 JUL 2014 SPECIAL HTML <P><A HREF="http://x.hope.net/">Hope Konferenz</A> </P>
REM 20 JUL 2014 SPECIAL HTML <P><A HREF="http://x.hope.net/">Hope Konferenz</A> </P>

Question here, is there a way to make an event last for three days? 


Next, I wanted to use rem2ics to creat the .ics file.
And it looks like the SPECIAL HTML syntax breaks this. The ics-file just contains a few events that don't use HTML.

Question here:  Is there a better way to do this? I would love to have the links also in the ics-file.


The other way to do this would be to create a little DB and some perlscripts to generate HTML and ics...
(maybe something already done by thousands of hackers)

So, any pointers/ideas are really welcome! :-)


Best regards

Ralph