BCS & CVS Events Calendars

The old BCS events server/calendar has been replaced with a new calendaring system, which provides separate events calendars for both BCS and CVS. To view the calendars in your web browser, visit http://calendar.bcs.rochester.edu or http://calendar.cvs.rochester.edu (two names for the same server).

E-mail reminders

Anybody who was receiving BCS event reminders via e-mail from the old system has automatically been added to the new system. Reminders are sent out upon event creation, modification, deletion, and both 1 and 3 days before the event takes place.

People receiving reminders of CVS events via e-mail will continue to receive them via the new calendar server. Reminders will be sent out at the same intervals as the BCS event reminders.

To add/delete/change an e-mail subscription, please send an e-mail to postmaster@cvs.rochester.edu with your request. It will be processed promptly.

RSS subscriptions

The calendars offer an RSS feed, so you can add them to your web browser and have event info appear there. An RSS icon appears in the top left corner of each calendar...when you click on it, your web browser should give you the option of adding the feed to your bookmarks. If it doesn't, here are the direct links:

BCS calendar - feed://calendar.bcs.rochester.edu/rssxmllink?calendar=bcs_events

CVS calendar - feed://calendar.cvs.rochester.edu/rssxmllink?calendar=cvs_events

Subscribing via other calendars

You can subscribe to the event calendar(s) from within Apple iCal and have the events automatically download into your Apple calendar. To do so, go to the menu bar within Apple iCal and click on "Calendar", then "Subscribe", and enter the desired URL(s):

BCS calendar - http://calendar.bcs.rochester.edu/icalsubscribe/bcs_events

CVS calendar - http://calendar.cvs.rochester.edu/icalsubscribe/cvs_events

The calendar(s) should then appear in the window on the left, and the events in the calendar itself.

You can also subscribe via Google Calendar. However, Google does not correctly identify the time zone that we are in, so the times will not appear correctly if you use the above link. To subscribe via Google Calendar, use this link instead:

BCS calendar for Google Calendar - http://calendar.bcs.rochester.edu/icalsubscribe/bcs_events_gc

You go to "add other calendar" and select "by URL" and then paste the iCal URL(s) listed above.