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== TODO == Its important to understand that we are not being locked into using Google Calendar forever. If the News Team can find a better solution in the future, we can easily migrate away from Google Calendar.

The Fridge is currently running Drupal 5. There is no core calendaring functionality. The events module that it has currently does not support repeating events. If a meeting is supposed to be held weekly, 52 separate events have to be created for the year. Obviously, this is not a maintainable process. Other calendar modules were evaluated by the IS team, but they had security vulnerabilities. Also, most development of event modules have stopped on Drupal 5 and moved on to Drupal 6.

Drupal 6 handles calendars better. Development of modules supporting repeating events is on-going and will be released in the future. Since we need a solution now, going to Drupal 6 does not solve our problems.

== #ubuntu-meeting bot ==

The #ubuntu-meeting bot currently changes to the topic in the channel to list current and upcoming meetings. It can handle individual events properly, but cannot process the iCal standard for repeating events.

This will have to be fixed in the future.

Summary

The Fridge calendar is used to organize meetings around the community, specifically ones that take place in #ubuntu-meeting.

The calendar is viewable at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendar (XML, iCal, HTML).

Adding Events to the Calendar

Teams can have their members add and edit their meetings to the calendar. There are two requirements for individuals requesting access to the calendar:

  • must be an Ubuntu member
  • needs an gmail address or an email that is a login for a Google account.

To request access, there are two options:

  • stop by #ubuntu-news and request access
  • subscribe to the Ubuntu News list and send an email to it.

Please provide the email address that will be used to access the calendar and name of the team requesting access.

If there no Ubuntu members on the team, ask in #ubuntu-news.

Why Google Calendar? Why not an OSS solution?

Its important to understand that we are not being locked into using Google Calendar forever. If the News Team can find a better solution in the future, we can easily migrate away from Google Calendar.

The Fridge is currently running Drupal 5. There is no core calendaring functionality. The events module that it has currently does not support repeating events. If a meeting is supposed to be held weekly, 52 separate events have to be created for the year. Obviously, this is not a maintainable process. Other calendar modules were evaluated by the IS team, but they had security vulnerabilities. Also, most development of event modules have stopped on Drupal 5 and moved on to Drupal 6.

Drupal 6 handles calendars better. Development of modules supporting repeating events is on-going and will be released in the future. Since we need a solution now, going to Drupal 6 does not solve our problems.

#ubuntu-meeting bot

The #ubuntu-meeting bot currently changes to the topic in the channel to list current and upcoming meetings. It can handle individual events properly, but cannot process the iCal standard for repeating events.

This will have to be fixed in the future.

Fridge/Calendar (last edited 2020-04-24 17:45:51 by brian-murray)