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

The Fridge calendar is used to organize meetings around the community.

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

Adding Events to the Calendar

  1. Log into Google Calendar (either using a gmail address or an address that is a login for a Google account)
  2. Create an event.
  3. Under Add Guests, invite j5q85mmi6ujvjtii5s1n3li5io@group.calendar.google.com.

  4. Save the event.
  5. When it asks "Would you like to send invitation to new guests?", please choose "Don't Send"
  6. Verify the event is showing up correctly in http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendar (which is in GMT).

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 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)