This is a test of the calendar feature, for my own amusement

The Water Cooler
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This is a calendar.

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A weekly event

2021-01-09T16:00:00Z → 2021-01-09T17:00:00Z

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Hello @mattdm ,
Very cool. How did you do it?
@bcotton @pfrields @cverna @asamalik @glb What do you think of using something like this for the magazine schedule?

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My immediate reaction is that the benefits don’t outweigh the cost of separating the schedule from the Taiga cards. I’m open to being convinced otherwise.

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Discourse recently added the calendar plugin to the list of plugins available at our hosting plan level (“Business”). So I turned it on. :slight_smile:

Details here:

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In your opinion, could it replace fedocal?

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Not as it stands, but with some work maybe?

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I was going to say “no”, but as I thought about it, I think maybe. My big concern was that Fedocal serves as a channel reservation system of sorts. But if we had a Calendar category with a topic for each meeting room (e.g #fedora-meeting), that solves that problem. The big missing feature then becomes sending reminders to the appropriate category or email address. So I could schedule the Council meeting by creating an event in the #fedora-meeting topic, but there would be no automated reminder like Fedocal sends. We could do without that, but it would be a pretty big usability regression, IMO.

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Yeah, missing from fedocal:

  • reminders
  • iCal feed
  • IRC bot integration
  • badges integration

Nice to have:

  • invites
  • attendee status (yes, no, maybe)
  • find-a-time / when-is-good