[documentation] scheduling and calendars

[Patrick Teglia]

Why don't we setup a Google Calendar?  It will supply RSS, can be made
public, and can cover categories.

Thanks,

Patrick Teglia


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Addison Berry <drupal at rocktreesky.com>wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > One of the things we talked about today in the meeting was having a
> > visual calendar to show current doc team projects as well as
> > (arbitrary)
> > deadlines for different projects.
> >
> > At this point it seems we rely on brute force brain power to remember
> > all of the things that are happening. Add1sun is awesome at giving us
> > reminders, but I'd like to feel a little more in control of all the
> > stuff that's happening (remembering URLs is also not my strength).
> > I'm a
> > visual thinker so I'd like this information to be contained in a
> > calendar display (and/or available as a feed that I can import into my
> > own calendar system).
>
> Definitely something we need to sort out if we are ging to make it
> easier for people to jump in. Thanks for taking this on emmajane.
>
> >
> >
> > Assuming that I'm not the only person who (1) works well to deadlines
> > and (2) would appreciate being able to "see" the future plans for the
> > doc team, what would you like to see on the calendar:
> > [ ] current projects
> > [ ] future meetings
> > [ ] theme of the week for tasks (e.g. this week is focused on cleaning
> > up the ____ documents or issue queue or ??)
> > [ ] (deadline for) request for comments (e.g. the Knight Initiative
> > proposal that Add1sun has put forward)
> > [ ] other?
> >
> These sound good to me (with current projects being set with those
> arbitrary deadlines). The events on g.d.o will allow us to do multi-
> day events, so we can do the theme of the week ones as well. My only
> thought on the list is that people may not want *all* of those
> different things showing up in their calendars. USing taxonomy gives
> us handy RSS feeds so people can follow the feeds that they want. I'm
> not sure that the iCal calendar would do the same thing for us.
>
>
> > I don't have a lot of experience with g.d.o, so I'm not entirely sure
> > what's installed and more to the point, what would be useful /to/
> > install if there are specific tools that might be useful...one
> > suggestion was to create events everything along with some basic
> > taxonomy to filter different kinds of events (maybe using the
> > different
> > categories listed above?).
>
> I've added you as an admin to the docs group (
> http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team
> ) so you can get in and see what we have to work with. Feel free to
> ping me about what is set up so far. We do have a vocabulary, which we
> can expand/change, that currently just has "meetings" and "sprints" in
> it.
>
> > (Add1sun has also opened an issue to see why the doc team meeting
> > didn't
> > show up in the main calendar for g.d.o... we should at least be able
> > to
> > get meetings showing up in the main calendar.)
> >
> Yeah, I hope to get to the bottom of that one, since that should just
> be happening for us AFAIK.
>
> - Addi (add1sun)
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