Introduction Fedocal

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 10/05/2012 02:55 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 14:46 -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 19:27 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Fedocal is a web-application aiming at providing a central place for
>>>> Fedora calendar related data.
>>>> My first thoughts while doing this was the #fedora-meeting{,-1,-2} IRC
>>>> channels, but I do think it could work as well for any other calendar
>>>> related information (releases?, infra?).
>>> We have deployed a test instance of fedocal at:
>>> https://209.132.184.101/fedocal/
>>>
>>> It is configured at the moment so that every one that has signed the CLA
>>> can add calendars/meetings, but by default you will need to be CLA+1 (in
>>> one more group than just the CLA group).
>>>
>>> Comments/Suggestions/Contributions are always welcome :)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pierre
>> Very nice, Pierre!
>>
>> I guess I missed the September announcement of it. I've been wanting
>> something nice like this for sometime. I'll be happy to help test it
>> as needed, so add me to whatever list will allow me to help.
>>
>> As for features, I think the iCal/caldav stuff is uber important. I
>> want to be able to import it into whatever calendaring system I'm
>> using and be able to add/remove them from my own interface (assuming I
>> have rights). I think this is more important even than the interface
>> that you already have working in that most people are already
>> comfortable with their own calendaring, be it google calendar,
>> iCalendar from Apple, Lotus Notes, etc. Integration in calendaring is
>> the most challenging but useful part. I know that's a longer term goal
>> and I think I can work with two calendars for the short term, but
>> without a way to push/pull events between calendars, I don't see it
>> working long term for me.
>>
>> Thanks again for putting this together and I look forward to watching
>> the featureset grow and help where I can.
> Hi Clint,
>
> Thanks for the feedback and the encouragements.
>
> I agree that a iCal/Caldav support is a MUST for this project,
> unfortunately time-wise it might be limited for me the coming months.
> I should try to see if iCal might not be easier to support than Caldav
> though, even if I start by having a read-only calendar.
>
> Maírín said that she could help with the design and today iambryan
> offered to help as well on the project and we you on board, the team is
> growing fast!
>
> To me the first objective is to clarify and stabilize the code and make
> it looks nicer (both the code and the website).
> The iCal/Caldav feature will come afterward once there are sufficient
> unit-tests coverage :)
>
> In the meanwhile, please send bug reports and RFE, I'll keep a TODO file
> within the project to not lose track of them.
How does this work with the work people have been doing on Fedora 
Insight, since that had been planned to have an integrated calendar?
>
> Regards,
> Pierre
>
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