This is a jump-start for the discussion of adding calendaring/event operations to scoop. The core concept is to take a story and mark it during submission as being an "event." Along with this a date stamp (or possibly a timestamp, if that level of granularity is desired) and a location are entered. Location could either be a freeform text string, or harvested from a list, which could be added to in some form. (perhaps a moderated queue, similar to stories?) Stories marked as an event are put in a special section called "Calendar", and would be subject to moderation as other stories. Since stories are used as the mechanism for event storage, comments, ratings, and everything else stories enjoy are applicable. For viewing, a separate box is created, with two views. The first is a mini-calendar view of the current week plus the next three weeks with those dates with active events highlighted. Dates are links to the calendar section with stories limited to those occuring on that particular date. The second is a user-configurable list of upcoming events. Potential knobs include number of events to show, limit by number of days in the future, topic or location filter (if a list is used).... Comments and suggestions are welcomed, I'd like to see this incorporated into the main codebase as I think it'd be very useful. Oh yeah, for those I didn't talk to on the channel, Hi. :) -Sean.