[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar

[Amy Terlaga]

What a great idea, Dan!  

I will see what I can add - reports task force meetings, etc.

Thanks to Jason Etheridge (and to Karen Schneider for being ahead of her
time)!

Amy

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:40:52 -0500
From: Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
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This came up relatively quickly last night on IRC, so thanks to Jason
Etheridge for in turn setting up http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - we now
have a community calendar that anyone can add their group or committee's
events to; all that is required is a Google account and the ability to edit
the wiki page. I've written up brief instructions how to add a calendar and
add an event to a given calendar here:
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calendar:editing_the_community
_calendar

Jason seeded things with the "Evergreen ILS Community Calendar", used for
the Community IRC meetings, and I've added calendars for the "Evergreen ILS
Governance Committee" and "Evergreen ILS Developers".
You can see the initial results of that at http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar
-  I was starting to worry about missing meetings, but now that I have added
the pertinent calendars to my own calendar, I'm not worried any more :)

I think it would be great to add calendars for the DIG, WIG, Communications
Committee, Reports task force, etc.

(It turns out that Karen Schneider had set up a similar community calendar
year(s) ago but apparently almost nobody knew about it and it didn't get
much use: that's Karen, always ahead of her time!)

Oh, and a quick plan for making this calendar visible is to create a
high-level "Community" page that would link in turn to the blog, planet,
IRC, mailing lists, and now the calendar. And then I'll remove those links
from our standard header and replace it with a "Community" link to the
community page, with a whiz-bang drop-down menu for those who have
JavaScript enabled.

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