[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #222: Endpoint to retrieve all upcoming events

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#222: Endpoint to retrieve all upcoming events
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  Reporter:  markoheijnen  |      Owner:  iandunn
      Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  accepted
  Priority:  normal        |  Component:  wordcamp.org
Resolution:                |   Keywords:
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Changes (by iandunn):

 * owner:   => iandunn
 * status:  new => accepted


Comment:

 We've already got one that serves an ICS file for the next 15 days. You
 can access it at http://central.wordcamp.org/calendar.ics and see the code
 at
 http://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordcamp.org/public_html
 /wp-content/plugins/wc-calendar/wc-calendar.php.

 What kind of use cases are you looking at for this?

 Most applications would probably want JSON instead of ICS, so I can see us
 rolling the ICS code into your plugin and then doing any future endpoints
 in JSON. It'd probably be good to keep the ICS stuff in a separate class,
 though.

 We store lots of meta data about WordCamps in a custom `wordcamp` post
 type and treat it as canonical, so it'd probably be better to query that
 in `get_wordcamps()` instead of the sites themselves. There are sites like
 http://central.wordcamp.org and http://plan.wordcamp.org that aren't
 WordCamps. I'll be moving that plugin to the Meta repo in the next few
 weeks as part of #221.

 I'd probably want to rename the plugin to something like 'WordCamp API' or
 'WordCamp Endpoints', since 'WordCamp App' isn't very descriptive, and
 we'd need to wait for the JSON API to land in Core, but overall I like the
 idea.

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