[documentation] scheduling and calendars

[Addison Berry]

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)