[Noisebridge-discuss] NoisyCalendary

[Kelly]

It totally might, and actually I would argue that it should.

I defer to Ian's judgment on this one, but there's the issue of grey areas.

Obviously it would be lame to double book a classroom, and if we could
make that impossible I'd be ok with it.  But the rest of the space is
not so easily partitioned.  So I think that we have to have a
text-input field for the location.  Which means that you can TOTALLY
double book an area.  I mean, I am generally in favor of having as few
limitations as possible, so I think we should allow double booking.
There is no real reason not to (only assholes and idiots would double
book something that's obvious, and they can handle the social drama
they create) and there are reasons to allow it.

-K

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Vlad Spears <spears at 2secondfuse.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Kelly wrote:
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> -Events don't all start at the same time, but they may still conflict.
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> If I'm scheduled 7-9, but someone else is scheduled 8-10, I can't very
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> well just see if they show up before I decide to take their room. This
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> has been a problem in the past.
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> Sure you can see if they show up before you take their room.  What would be
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> an excellent amount of time to wait?  15 mins?  After that time passes, if
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> no-one is there then take their room at 8:15.  If they show up late, it can
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> be worked out between those present.  Being late is unexcellent, but doesn't
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> require contact info.  What if their contact info was email and they were
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> stuck in traffic without access? Or their phone is on vibrate in their bag?
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>  You might take their room at 7:55 when you can't contact them even though
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> they may walk in the door at the stroke of 8:00.
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> No, I meant that this is a problem when I need a room at 7. When the
> 8pm person arrives they're unlikely to boot me if I already have a
> sizeable group in progress.  And since I won't be done until an hour
> into their event, they're stuck with the couch area. This is what
> happened to BayCat, and let me tell you, it was frustrating seeing
> them all clustered around a small whiteboard on a chair, while the
> group in their room probably didn't need a whiteboard at all.  And
> you're assuming that I'm trying to troubleshoot this situation when
> I'm in the space.  I mean that contact info allows for this to be
> dealt with in advance. When I notice that someone else has booked
> something potentially conflicting, I can contact them to try to work
> it out in advance.  I think my point was that often when the only
> option you have is to work it out, that night, in the space, it's
> already too late.
>
> I'm under the impression resources can't be double-booked in the One True
> Calendar, though this might be a mistake on my part.  It doesn't make sense
> that I could reserve something which has already been reserved by someone
> else.  Will NoiseCal allow double-booking?
> Vlad