Calendaring system?

[David Nalley]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, 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!
>>
>
> Maybe we should mature this a bit and look into full collaboration suites.
>
> For example http://www.opengroupware.org/
>
> I'm poking around at some now, I'm not sure what license restrictions
> there are for each.
>
>        -Mike
>
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As a former contributor to OGo I think it's a great project, and it
supports things like CAlDAV. However unless things have changed
recently I'd expect it to be a bear to get packaged and into Fedora.
Not that it should be excluded, just a heads up. That said it's really
email centric and I am not sure we'd want to get in that business.