[teampractices] Who doesn't love calendars?

Thu Apr 7 20:36:00 UTC 2016

Thanks Quim for your response - I really appreciate you helping me
understand this better, but I'm still not fully grokking this, perhaps
because I am a staffer who exclusively uses Google Calendar. Is the issue
that there are events that are open to non-staff that are being managed in
multiple places, making it confusing to know where to look for event
information? When you say 'Wikimedia events' - do you mean Wikimedia
movement events, or Wikimedia Foundation events, or something totally
different? And is the proposal to fully migrate staff and
non-staff-specific events out of Google calendar into Phabricator?

Thanks again,
Arthur

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Quim, I read the description of the task you shared but I'm afraid I
>> still don't understand what you mean by 'problem of calendars in Wikimedia'
>> - can you please share more about what the problem is that you see and are
>> trying to resolve?
>>
>
> We have too many calendars in different supports that don't integrate with
> each other. Frequently events are expected to be introduced in several
> calendars, often they are not introduced in any. WMF employees frequently
> pay attention only to what shows up in their Google Calendar.
>
> Nick shows a glimpse of the problem at
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1035#19336
>
> Now imagine that we could submit Wikimedia events in Phabricator's
> calendar, following one process, and then users would have ways to query
> that calendar and integrate the data in their calendar services /
> applications.
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Some of you might have realized that we have a problem of calendars in
>>> Wikimedia. If you are interested in improving / resolving this problem at
>>> least in the context of Wikimedia Tech, please check
>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1035#2183068 and comment there.
>>>
>>>
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