UPDATE: Calendars for 2019 and 2020 have been generated for your enjoyment! Links are at the bottom of the page.

UPDATE: Calendars for 2015 and 2016 have been generated for your enjoyment! Links are at the bottom of the page.

Calendars… we use em every day. But I find that the square, month by month representation causes us to miss important relationships between events in time. The circular calendar represents a complete year as a circle. Here’s an example showing important computer scientists birthdays for the year 2012.

Download the calendar as a single page PDF maker_calendar_2012.pdf here, or spread onto two pages maker_calendar_2012_2page.pdf, four pages maker_calendar_2012_4page.pdf, or six pages maker_calendar_2012_6page.pdf.

I find the calendar useful for showing relationships between complex ranges of dates. For example, here are the moose hunting seasons for Quebec, for 2011. Complicated, but i found this easier to use than a table.

Again - the calendar may be downloaded as a single page PDF moose_calendar.pdf here, or spread onto two pages moose_calendar_2page.pdf, four pages moose_calendar_4page.pdf, or six pages moose_calendar_6page.pdf.

The script to create the Circular Calendar can be obtained here

svn co https://svn.assembla.com/svn/CircularCalendar/

Thanks to Silverbyte for pointing out that the script requires the following packages

• texlive-extra-utils (for epstopdf)
• epstool
• poster (Tool to convert 1PDF to Multiple File PDF’s)
• remind (Main calendar engine. download from http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
• pyephem-3.7.4.1 :: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyephem/
• ghostscript version equal or better than 8.71

Its also worth noting you need to be using the GNU version of awk, rather than plain vanilla awk. On Ubuntu, you can get this by installing the gawk package.

If you decide to use it, i’d love to hear about it at strawdog3 at gmail dot com. In fact, since my documentation efforts have been minimalistic at best, i recommend that you contact me for a bit of advice about how to get going with the script.

Additional calendars, with the computer scientist birthdays theme.

• 2015, single page calendar_2015.pdf
• 2015, two pages calendar_2015_2page.pdf
• 2015, four pages calendar_2015_4page.pdf
• 2015, six pages calendar_2015_6page.pdf
• 2016, single page calendar_2016.pdf
• 2016, two pages calendar_2016_2page.pdf
• 2016, four pages calendar_2016_4page.pdf
• 2016, six pages calendar_2016_6page.pdf
• 2019, single page calendar_2019.pdf
• 2019, two pages calendar_2019_2page.pdf
• 2019, four pages calendar_2019_4page.pdf
• 2019, six pages calendar_2019_6page.pdf
• 2020, single page calendar_2020.pdf
• 2020, two pages calendar_2020_2page.pdf
• 2020, four pages calendar_2020_4page.pdf
• 2020, six pages calendar_2020_6page.pdf .