Calendaring system?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Clint Savage wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> Hi, guys. Uh, quick intro for those who see the redhat.com and wonder
>>> who I am - I'm Adam Williamson. I'm new in the Fedora QA department here
>>> at RH, my job is to drive community involvement in Fedora QA. I came
>>> over from Mandriva where I was the community manager. I'll be working
>>> from my home in Vancouver, Canada.
>>>
>>> I'm new on the list so this may have come up before, in which case
>>> apologies :). Something I thought would be nice to have for QA community
>>> is a public calendar system where dates of events like test days can be
>>> published. Obviously it's silly for me personally or the QA team to take
>>> on the job of hosting a calendar server, but it was suggested that it
>>> would be a good project for the infrastructure team, and other groups
>>> within Fedora could probably benefit from it. Does it sound like a good
>>> idea? Anyone want to have a go? Or is there something already, that I
>>> don't know about? Thanks!
>> I've not seen anything in this thread yet, so it may have been mentioned
>> before;
>>
>> MediaWiki has a couple of calendering plugins that will allow "days" to be
>> allocated; I looked into this for our meeting schedule but since none of
>> them include any times for appointments I found it to be useless.
>> Nonetheless, it could be worthwhile for allocating "Test days" and "Events"
>> -and things of the sort.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen
>> -kanarip
>>
> 
> I think the point I'm continuing to make is that it should support
> caldav or something similar.  The protocol defines a protocol, so the
> client applications themselves shouldn't matter, but we do need to
> have a way to communicate with the calendar server.
> 
> My intention isn't to discount MediaWiki or Zikula as a possible
> platform for a calendaring client, but to say that the features you
> suggest are not what we're after here.  Instead I'd say that those two
> applications could push/pull data from the calendar server (using
> caldav).
> 
> The events listed in the caldav server can be manipulated by these
> other applications and probably through an API which could include
> Access Control Lists based upon FAS rights.  I can see this being a
> bit of an undertaking, but it can really benefit the Fedora Project as
> a whole.
> 
> As I stated in my previous email, I've got a draft up of all the
> features we'd like to see (it's pretty empty right now) and I'll
> probably go ahead and list some of this email there.  But for those of
> you who are interested in helping me get that wiki page more complete,
> feel free to visit:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Herlo/Fedora_Calendar_Project_Desired_Features_(Draft)
> 
> Keep the thoughts coming, I want to see this project succeed!
> 

Dude, I'm sorry I even brought it up. Good luck!

-Jeroen