Q: What is the elmcity project?
A: It’s a web service that:
- Collects online calendar events for geographic or topical communities
- Merges information from many sources: Eventful, Upcoming, Eventbrite, and iCalendar feeds published by popular calendar programs
- Creates network effects using iCalendar (ICS) feeds, in the same way that blogging and microblogging systems create network effects using RSS, Atom, and Twitter feeds.
- Does not store events in a centralized database, but rather operates as a hub that merges streams of events and republishes the merged result in a variety of formats.
- Is managed by one or more curators in a community, on behalf of everyone in the community.
- Runs on, and demonstrates the capabilities of, Microsoft’s Azure platform.
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