Mars appreciation

[magid]

In addition to Mars night at the Museum of Science, there's also a special Open Night at the BU Observatory, with a lecture about Mars preceding the open telescope time, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is offering three nights of lectures and Mars viewing, tonight through Thursday.

In general, BU opens its observatory to the public every (clear) Wednesday night. Harvard offers lectures and an open observatory every third Thursday (sky viewing only if the weather's clear).

All of these are free.
I think I should start a calendar of ongoing free (and very-low-cost) things around Boston.

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[queue.livejournal.com]

This could easily be turned into a Web page, which might be of interest to others. Oh, and could do an RSS feed for it daily, with upcoming stuff, so you could see about free stuff happening when you check your friends page.

I'd be happy to collaborate with you on this.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't know about daily feeds... that sounds like it would turn into something requiring a bit more time than I'd be willing to invest. Weekly, maybe.
I was thinking more about some kind of list of things with links if applicable for more information, along with links of other places that have events on a less-than-regular basis (libraries, author lectures, etc).

What I was thinking about this morning was just getting all the stuff together in one place; perhaps a Web page would be the right place for that. Let's talk sometime?

[queue.livejournal.com]

A daily feed wouldn't require daily work for you. You would set up the calendar. Then a program would look every morning at what's on the calendar for that day, then it could update the feed to reflect that.

Anyway, yeah, we can talk about it.

[missdimple.livejournal.com]

Count me in, please...I love free and I love fun! And, I pretend I'm a geek even though I could never play one on TV.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'm not deciding about tomorrow night until I'm absolutely sure about the weather (likely tomorrow afternoon)... I've not had good luck with astronomical things this year so far...

As for other free stuff: I might end up making a calendar on the Web as Queue suggested, in which case I think I might be off the hook for organizing outings ;-). Or maybe not.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more about the work in making sure there was something available every day if it's a daily feed, not that I'd have to do something every day, exactly.

And there's a bunch of stuff that's ongoing (like the freedom trail, stuff like that), that wouldn't really fit in a feed, though I guess that wouldn't matter, since a feed would include a link to the calendar site, too.

[queue.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more about the work in making sure there was something available every day if it's a daily feed, not that I'd have to do something every day, exactly.

I don't get what you're saying. You wouldn't have to make sure there is something every day. Of course, there are likely recurring things every single day of the week, so there would like be something every day. If there isn't, then it just wouldn't update on the days nothing was going on. Or you could have it give stuff coming up for the next several days every day, or whatever. Anyway, no extra work for you.


And there's a bunch of stuff that's ongoing (like the freedom trail, stuff like that), that wouldn't really fit in a feed, though I guess that wouldn't matter, since a feed would include a link to the calendar site, too.

Yeah, the whole point of the feed would be for things that are coming up right then. It's not a replacement for the Web site, just a notification type thing.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Do you still want to do this project?

[queue.livejournal.com]

Yeah. How's Thursday look for you?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Currently, a farmer's market, a CD release party, and possibly potluck in between those.