[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Calendar

[Kelly]

I feel this is not a good sign.

Oh come on guys.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just thought I'd give this another poke since it's been a while since
> our last argument. Is anyone interested in trying to get a better
> calendar system set up for Noisebridge?
>
> The wiki is generally the slightly more official bottom line for event
> scheduling, but the format of events is really not portable or useful
> and people occasionally double book.  Currently there's an
> "unofficial" google calendar that I think we maintain mainly for the
> ical feed (so we can have it on our fancy phones) but it's not
> publicly editable.  We invite people to edit it on a whim though, so
> there are quite a lot of editors.  This isn't really a great solution
> though for several reasons, cheif amongst them that it is operated by
> the googles rather than hosted locally.
>
> So... any progress we can make on this?  If we can at least duke it
> out on possible platforms until we know the best option then at least
> I know what to pitch when some uppity newb starts complaining about
> our calendar situation.  Or I may be technically capable of
> implementing this myself, though I can't host it.
>
> To my mind, our minimum requirements are these:
>
> -Publicly editable, anonymously editable
> -Publicly linkable
> -Has the usual variety of calendar layouts (day, week, month, list)
> -The usual calendar capabilities (description field, repeating events)
> -iCal feed, RSS feed
> -Some sort of feed which can auto-update the wiki homepage
> -Probably free
> -Hosted locally(ish)
>
> And bonus options:
>
> -Can use wiki logins or some other kind of identification in addition
> to anonymous
> -Events have a field for which room/area of NB
> -Calendars show which room/area of NB
> -open source or some other moral superiority
> -easy publishing to email (for nb-announce, for instance)
> -misc bells and whistles
>
>
> -Kelly
>