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Since the year 2011 I maintain the Calendar of ICT Holidays for the members of the Computer Engineers Association of Spain (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, ATI) and for the professionals of the Information and Communication Technologies in general. The Calendar is published through the Google Calendar application in formats iCal and HTML, which means that is possible to subscribe from every kind of agenda and e-mail applications, and also view the calendar as a web page or insert it in one. The calendar is available in English, Spanish and Galician. The news is that this year the Calendar is doubly updated: in addition of towards the future, also towards the past. Now the Calendar holds also all the editions of the holidays previous to 2011. Now it's not only an announcement of what is to come, but also a register of the past.
- English: International ICT Holidays · iCal · HTML
- Spanish: Celebraciones TIC Internacionales · iCal · HTML
- Galician: Celebracións TIC Internacionais · iCal · HTML
Note: For 2017 three of the holidays aren't still announced and therefore the date could be modified. Subscribing to the Calendar allows to get the updates.
[Editor note: Author is a native Spanish speaker, I left his English as submitted.]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:35PM
Author of the post here.
About the English: It's OK to criticize the English used, I myself have done it in the past – it was me who complained about the “all-capital” Soylent News headlines because they sometimes make for confusing headlines when names that include verbs are involved. Nevertheless, what you're reading here is the result of working on my spare time and ending up submitting the post at 1:30 am, so give me a break. I think that it should have been edited.
About the Calendar: Every January the 1st, I get started at the task of updating the Calendar, but the task usually gets delayed. Not every holiday is like SysAdmin Day, where it doesn't add up to a week the time passed from the celebration of an edition to the announcement of the following one. Inevitably there are some holidays whose next edition isn't announced until some weeks before it. I don't know why it has to be this way, but typically it happens with the first holiday of the year, which forces me to delay the update of the Calendar because of, how to publish a calendar where the very first holiday is still unannounced? Specially catastrophic is 2016, where the long shutdown of the Digital Freedom Foundation made me to delay the update until the very day of the holiday – all to no avail, because their website kept being offline (the finally solved the crisis and ended up celebrating the holiday on a different date). In this year 2017 the lazy one is the Council of Europe, that not until January 19th announced officially the January 28th holiday.