The ICT Days Calendar, updated towards the future and past

Good day to everybody. This is Ignacio Agulló, and 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.

English: International ICT Holidays
iCal format: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/atinet.es_475jrhngqo61ovcspnaj07onjk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
HTML format: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=atinet.es_475jrhngqo61ovcspnaj07onjk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Madrid

Spanish: Celebraciones TIC Internacionales
iCal format: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/atinet.es_8as8kj0nsu2ipbfei1lckmpgc8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
HTML format: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=atinet.es_8as8kj0nsu2ipbfei1lckmpgc8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Madrid

Galician: Celebracións TIC Internacionais
iCal format: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/atinet.es_aqgogghag1d50a7ir6t3hipqr8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
HTML format: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=atinet.es_aqgogghag1d50a7ir6t3hipqr8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Madrid

Every january 1st, I get started at the task of update 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 and the call for the following. Inevitably there are some holidays whose new edition isn't announced until some weeks before. 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 first holiday is still unannounced? Specially catastrophic is 2016, where the long shutdown of the Digital Freedom Foundation made me to delay the update and finally due to lack of response take off the Calendar their holidays - finally they solve their problem and ran their holidays on another date. In this year 2017 the lazy one is the Council of Europe, that not until today has announced officially the holiday of the next day 28. I must note that for 2017 three of the holidays aren't sill announced and therefore the date could be modified. Subscribing to the Calendar allows to get the updates.

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.

Let the year 2017 be fortunate for the ICT sector.