[Insight] Calendar use cases, planning

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:46:04PM +0100, Peter Borsa wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:43:59PM +0100, Peter Borsa wrote:
> >> Hi folks!
> >>
> >> First, I know that we talked about Insight calendar use cases before
> >> but I want to twirl up this conversation. Let's see what we've gotten
> >> so far.[1]
> >>
> >> There are a few great short term use cases. I installed a basic
> >> calendar on my instance, if you would like to see it, message me. I
> >> think we can reach these "goals". I'm showing a possible solution.
> >> Imagine that you've a content, this contain some useful fields like
> >> content's title, date, team, type, region and release version. In
> >> Views module, you can expose these fields so a visitor can filter
> >> them. I don't dive deeper, it might be boring.
> >>
> >> I would like to achieve our short term goals by the end of FUDCon Blacksburg.
> >> Okay, but how can we do it?! It's simple. Talk about it, share your
> >> ideas. We're trying to solve problems but we need your thoughts,
> >> ideas, help.
> >>
> >> A stray idea, like drupal office hour[2], I would like to do something
> >> like that, I'll be always available on IRC in an appointed time, I'm
> >> not sure, when it will be. What do you think? Could you join to me in
> >> order to fix bugs / plan / share ideas, codes.
> >
> > I like the idea of an office hour.  We could encourage other people
> > who want to give input on the calendar project to show up and ask
> > questions and share their thoughts.  Having the office hours would be
> > more useful if accompanied by blog posts and announcements to tell
> > people what we want from them.
> >
> > If you're specifically looking to refine the use cases, you would
> > probably want to have a list of questions you want people to answer to
> > help with that refining process.  Not just "How can we make a good
> > calendar?", but rather questions like, "When you are $doing_action_X,
> > do you generally prefer to do $Y, $Z, or something else entirely?"
> >
> >> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight_use_cases_for_calendar
> >> [2] http://drupal.org/node/1242856
> >
> Hi!
> 
> Yeah, lots of +1. I'm going to write a few questions and blog posts.
> Of course, I'll share my "Insight office hour" in the first blog post.
> If you have any ideas in questions topics, share with me, please.

I saw Peter's blog post here:
http://asrob.net/fedora-insight-office-hours

Unfortunately, I'm not able to do those times.  However, I would like
to not be a blocker.  If Peter and any other people can do those
times, just go ahead and do it. :-) Right now there doesn't seem to be
a lot of detail for what sort of visits you want, but I think that's
perfectly OK.  Do it for a couple weeks.  See what makes the most
sense.  Then post an update and let people know how they can best
participate (either as a visitor or as a helper).

I heard a couple people mention that mumble might be useful for this.
I'm not opposed to using voice communications as long as it's not
being used as an *alternative* to doing things transparently.  In
other words, if you use voice communications, report what's getting
done back out to the community through a blog summary.

Last I heard there was a bug in mumble that makes it not work on
Fedora 16, but a packager was working on library packaging that would
fix the problem.  Does anyone know the status on that?


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