Apparently the term iCal is used for three separate things:
1) an old Unix calendaring format definition
2) the iCalendar standard for calendaring format
3) an Apple Calendar application

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Ical+&ei=U8qXS8bIOpPCNuqVrXs&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&ved=0CAYQkAE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

and one reference I lost that said the term iCal is often, and mistakenly, used for iCalendar

As far as syncing with our google calendar goes:

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99355

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
I assume our current calendars don't support iCal, vCal, etc. format?
Eric


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM, David Huerta <huertanix@gmail.com> wrote:
Unfortunately there's no easy way to import stuff from an existing
calendar, but the idea has been suggested, and you can even vote on it
to show that its what peeps want:
http://eventification.uservoice.com/forums/22231-general/suggestions/483941-auto-pull-aggregate-events-from-other-sites-rss-?ref=title

.dh

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> Is there a method for that calender to pull from some existing calendar?
>  It would be nice if you could set something up to pull from the PLUG
> calendar feed directly.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 03/09/2010 09:42 AM, David Huerta wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> For a while now, the idea for an online calendar with all FOSS related
>> events has been discussed as being something everyone wants.  Having a
>> single calendar to promote every valley user group would be really
>> handy to get event notices out to a large, shared audience of people,
>> and help avoid scheduling conflicts.
>>
>> In any case, Eventification.com was created last year with similar,
>> broader aims that encompass the whole valley tech +related
>> communities, and I've recently been made a moderator for it.  We need
>> events to be posted on the calendar to make it useful though, and I'd
>> like to see more FOSS groups represented.  If you're the calendar
>> [dude|girl] for such a group, please start submitting events, and I'll
>> try to get them approved/published quickly assuming they don't include
>> tangent jibber-jabber or viagra spam.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
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