Calendaring system?

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Feb 9 21:11:08 UTC 2009


On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, David Nalley wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Clint Savage wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> >> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi, guys. Uh, quick intro for those who see the redhat.com and wonder
> >> >> who I am - I'm Adam Williamson. I'm new in the Fedora QA department here
> >> >> at RH, my job is to drive community involvement in Fedora QA. I came
> >> >> over from Mandriva where I was the community manager. I'll be working
> >> >> from my home in Vancouver, Canada.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm new on the list so this may have come up before, in which case
> >> >> apologies :). Something I thought would be nice to have for QA community
> >> >> is a public calendar system where dates of events like test days can be
> >> >> published. Obviously it's silly for me personally or the QA team to take
> >> >> on the job of hosting a calendar server, but it was suggested that it
> >> >> would be a good project for the infrastructure team, and other groups
> >> >> within Fedora could probably benefit from it. Does it sound like a good
> >> >> idea? Anyone want to have a go? Or is there something already, that I
> >> >> don't know about? Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > I've not seen anything in this thread yet, so it may have been mentioned
> >> > before;
> >> >
> >> > MediaWiki has a couple of calendering plugins that will allow "days" to be
> >> > allocated; I looked into this for our meeting schedule but since none of
> >> > them include any times for appointments I found it to be useless.
> >> > Nonetheless, it could be worthwhile for allocating "Test days" and "Events"
> >> > -and things of the sort.
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards,
> >> >
> >> > Jeroen van Meeuwen
> >> > -kanarip
> >> >
> >>
> >> I think the point I'm continuing to make is that it should support
> >> caldav or something similar.  The protocol defines a protocol, so the
> >> client applications themselves shouldn't matter, but we do need to
> >> have a way to communicate with the calendar server.
> >>
> >> My intention isn't to discount MediaWiki or Zikula as a possible
> >> platform for a calendaring client, but to say that the features you
> >> suggest are not what we're after here.  Instead I'd say that those two
> >> applications could push/pull data from the calendar server (using
> >> caldav).
> >>
> >> The events listed in the caldav server can be manipulated by these
> >> other applications and probably through an API which could include
> >> Access Control Lists based upon FAS rights.  I can see this being a
> >> bit of an undertaking, but it can really benefit the Fedora Project as
> >> a whole.
> >>
> >> As I stated in my previous email, I've got a draft up of all the
> >> features we'd like to see (it's pretty empty right now) and I'll
> >> probably go ahead and list some of this email there.  But for those of
> >> you who are interested in helping me get that wiki page more complete,
> >> feel free to visit:
> >>
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Herlo/Fedora_Calendar_Project_Desired_Features_(Draft)
> >>
> >> Keep the thoughts coming, I want to see this project succeed!
> >>
> >
> > Maybe we should mature this a bit and look into full collaboration suites.
> >
> > For example http://www.opengroupware.org/
> >
> > I'm poking around at some now, I'm not sure what license restrictions
> > there are for each.
> >
> >        -Mike
> >
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>
> As a former contributor to OGo I think it's a great project, and it
> supports things like CAlDAV. However unless things have changed
> recently I'd expect it to be a bear to get packaged and into Fedora.
> Not that it should be excluded, just a heads up. That said it's really
> email centric and I am not sure we'd want to get in that business.
>

Lets say we wanted to use features that were _not_ email storage based.
How feasible is that?  For example, if I created an appointment for you
and me, it'd still send an email to your @fp.o email address which would
then just be forwarded to your local MTA.

	-Mike




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