scheduling and calendars

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

Hi everyone,

One of the things we talked about today in the meeting was having a
visual calendar to show current doc team projects as well as (arbitrary)
deadlines for different projects.

At this point it seems we rely on brute force brain power to remember
all of the things that are happening. Add1sun is awesome at giving us
reminders, but I'd like to feel a little more in control of all the
stuff that's happening (remembering URLs is also not my strength). I'm a
visual thinker so I'd like this information to be contained in a
calendar display (and/or available as a feed that I can import into my
own calendar system).

Assuming that I'm not the only person who (1) works well to deadlines
and (2) would appreciate being able to "see" the future plans for the
doc team, what would you like to see on the calendar:
[ ] current projects
[ ] future meetings
[ ] theme of the week for tasks (e.g. this week is focused on cleaning
up the ____ documents or issue queue or ??)
[ ] (deadline for) request for comments (e.g. the Knight Initiative
proposal that Add1sun has put forward)
[ ] other?

I don't have a lot of experience with g.d.o, so I'm not entirely sure
what's installed and more to the point, what would be useful /to/
install if there are specific tools that might be useful...one
suggestion was to create events everything along with some basic
taxonomy to filter different kinds of events (maybe using the different
categories listed above?).

(Add1sun has also opened an issue to see why the doc team meeting didn't
show up in the main calendar for g.d.o... we should at least be able to
get meetings showing up in the main calendar.)

Suggestions? Questions? Thoughts on what might help you keep all the doc
team activities a little clearer in your brain?



regards,
emma

[Andrew Berry]

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
[ ] future meetings

This would be very useful; I know local group meetings have an iCal
feed, so I'm sure it can be done with the existing g.d.o setup.

I don't really feel that most of the other items fit well in a
calendar, unless they have due dates. They might fit better as an RSS
feed, since they really are more like announcements than specific
timed events. Perhaps "tasks of the week" postings to the read only
feed would be helpful.

--Andrew

[Addison Berry]

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi everyone,
One of the things we talked about today in the meeting was having a
visual calendar to show current doc team projects as well as
(arbitrary)
deadlines for different projects.
At this point it seems we rely on brute force brain power to remember
all of the things that are happening. Add1sun is awesome at giving us
reminders, but I'd like to feel a little more in control of all the
stuff that's happening (remembering URLs is also not my strength). I'm a
visual thinker so I'd like this information to be contained in a
calendar display (and/or available as a feed that I can import into my
own calendar system).

Definitely something we need to sort out if we are ging to make it
easier for people to jump in. Thanks for taking this on emmajane.

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
Assuming that I'm not the only person who (1) works well to deadlines
and (2) would appreciate being able to "see" the future plans for the
[ ] current projects
[ ] future meetings
[ ] theme of the week for tasks (e.g. this week is focused on cleaning
up the ____ documents or issue queue or ??)
[ ] (deadline for) request for comments (e.g. the Knight Initiative
proposal that Add1sun has put forward)
[ ] other?

These sound good to me (with current projects being set with those
arbitrary deadlines). The events on g.d.o will allow us to do multi-
day events, so we can do the theme of the week ones as well. My only
thought on the list is that people may not want *all* of those
different things showing up in their calendars. USing taxonomy gives
us handy RSS feeds so people can follow the feeds that they want. I'm
not sure that the iCal calendar would do the same thing for us.

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
I don't have a lot of experience with g.d.o, so I'm not entirely sure
what's installed and more to the point, what would be useful /to/
install if there are specific tools that might be useful...one
suggestion was to create events everything along with some basic
taxonomy to filter different kinds of events (maybe using the
different
categories listed above?).

I've added you as an admin to the docs group (http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team
) so you can get in and see what we have to work with. Feel free to
ping me about what is set up so far. We do have a vocabulary, which we
can expand/change, that currently just has "meetings" and "sprints" in
it.

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
(Add1sun has also opened an issue to see why the doc team meeting didn't
show up in the main calendar for g.d.o... we should at least be able to
get meetings showing up in the main calendar.)

Yeah, I hope to get to the bottom of that one, since that should just
be happening for us AFAIK.

- Addi (add1sun)
--
Pending work: http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/
List archives: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/

[Patrick Teglia]

Why don't we setup a Google Calendar? It will supply RSS, can be made
public, and can cover categories.

Thanks,

Patrick Teglia

Post by Addison Berry

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi everyone,
One of the things we talked about today in the meeting was having a
visual calendar to show current doc team projects as well as
(arbitrary)
deadlines for different projects.
At this point it seems we rely on brute force brain power to remember
all of the things that are happening. Add1sun is awesome at giving us
reminders, but I'd like to feel a little more in control of all the
stuff that's happening (remembering URLs is also not my strength). I'm a
visual thinker so I'd like this information to be contained in a
calendar display (and/or available as a feed that I can import into my
own calendar system).

Definitely something we need to sort out if we are ging to make it
easier for people to jump in. Thanks for taking this on emmajane.

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
Assuming that I'm not the only person who (1) works well to deadlines
and (2) would appreciate being able to "see" the future plans for the
[ ] current projects
[ ] future meetings
[ ] theme of the week for tasks (e.g. this week is focused on cleaning
up the ____ documents or issue queue or ??)
[ ] (deadline for) request for comments (e.g. the Knight Initiative
proposal that Add1sun has put forward)
[ ] other?

These sound good to me (with current projects being set with those
arbitrary deadlines). The events on g.d.o will allow us to do multi-
day events, so we can do the theme of the week ones as well. My only
thought on the list is that people may not want *all* of those
different things showing up in their calendars. USing taxonomy gives
us handy RSS feeds so people can follow the feeds that they want. I'm
not sure that the iCal calendar would do the same thing for us.

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
I don't have a lot of experience with g.d.o, so I'm not entirely sure
what's installed and more to the point, what would be useful /to/
install if there are specific tools that might be useful...one
suggestion was to create events everything along with some basic
taxonomy to filter different kinds of events (maybe using the different
categories listed above?).

I've added you as an admin to the docs group (
http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team
) so you can get in and see what we have to work with. Feel free to
ping me about what is set up so far. We do have a vocabulary, which we
can expand/change, that currently just has "meetings" and "sprints" in
it.

Post by Emma Jane Hogbin
(Add1sun has also opened an issue to see why the doc team meeting didn't
show up in the main calendar for g.d.o... we should at least be able to
get meetings showing up in the main calendar.)

Yeah, I hope to get to the bottom of that one, since that should just
be happening for us AFAIK.
- Addi (add1sun)
--
Pending work: http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/
List archives: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

Post by Patrick Teglia
Why don't we setup a Google Calendar? It will supply RSS, can be made
public, and can cover categories.

I'd really like to see us working within the Drupal toolset first. Part
of my thinking behind the iCal option was for people who do want to use
another calendar program (I have to admit that I mostly use paper and
downloaded templates from www.diyplanner.com).

I'm happy to explore g.d.o first. I'm sure if I've got this itch to
scratch there will be other groups who might benefit from having a
similar toolset. Of course if it all comes up fail we should look at
using an offsite option as well. :)

regards,
emma
PS Thanks for adding me as an admin, Add1sun, I'll play around with
things this week and report back on my findings.