[documentation] scheduling and calendars

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

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).

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?

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?).

(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.)

Suggestions? Questions? Thoughts on what might help you keep all the doc
team activities a little clearer in your brain?



regards,
emma

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