Please add IRC meeting dates to both Fedocal and Wiki

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:23:37AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > TL;DR: If you host/manage a meeting in a Fedora channel
> > > (#fedora-meeting, #fedora-meeting-1, #fedora-meeting-2), please add it
> > > to Fedocal and the Wiki at:
> > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/fedora-meeting-2/add/
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting_channel
> > > 
> > > Currently Fedora's IRC meeting channels are managed in the wiki:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting_channel
> > > 
> > > There is also a web calendar (Fedocal) that allows to register
> > > meetings):
> > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/
> > > 
> > > Both lists are not synchronised, therefore please add your meeting to
> > > both sites to avoid unexpected conflicts.
> > 
> > That's a duplication that will definitely put some people off, and annoy
> > others who overlook it and then get burned.
> > 
> > For Fedora QA Test Days, we have created a script that converts fedocal
> > events to a wiki page. We want an exported wiki page, because we need to
> > filter just test days from our calendar and present it into a succinct and
> > clear way, for marketing/ambassador purposes. The script is here:
> > https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/fedora-qa.git/tree/fedocal
> > and example output is here:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/test/Fedora_20_test_days
> > (it will be included into a side panel at
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days during the next cycle).
> > The tool could be adjusted for your purposes and its output could be included
> > in the wiki and refreshed automatically.
> > 
> > However, I think that for fedora-meeting purposes just the fedocal page could
> > be quite enough. What's the reason for duplicating it into a wiki? If you
> > need something adjusted in fedocal, to have it better arranged or something,
> > talk to pingou, the fedocal developer (cc'd).
> 
> +1, say no to duplication. I'm trying to make meetings I created in sync on
> both wiki and fedocal but I'd prefer one way. It would just require some changes
> in fedocal, I talked about with pingou - to make meeting creation easier, aka
> "new event", pick meeting room, check if it's occupied or not, create event.

Yes, I agree with you. However currently there are two out-of-sync
schedules and there was recently a conflict because one looked only at
fedocal and someone else at the wiki. So to get this away first all
events need to go into fedocal and then the wiki page can be cleared.
But I would also like to have a place where all meetings are visible,
e.g. a merged view for all meeting room calenders.

Regards
Till