Re: [libreoffice-marketing] List of Events to attend in 2012

Le 2011-11-22 15:52, Andreas Mantke a écrit :
> Hi Marc,
>
> Am Montag, 21. November 2011, 22:06:14 schrieb Marc Paré:
> > Hi Andreas
> >
> > Le 2011-11-21 15:12, Andreas Mantke a écrit :
> (...)
> > > If nobody objects I will start with a new wiki page for the events of
> > > 2012. I miss a column for the cfp in the current page and will add that
> > > two the new site.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andreas
> > Good one. I also had this on my to-do list. It would be nice if we could
> > have something like the sourceforge people who list FOSS events here:
> > http://sourceforge.net/blog/calendar-of-open-source-software-events/. I
> > had suggested at one point of combining the sourceforce google calendar
> > with our own and this would also help us plan for upcoming events. If
> > you do a search of the marketing/website lists under "calendar" you will
> > find that there have already been discussions on calendar implementation
> > either on the wiki or website.
> >
> > What you suggest would be great, even if it were only a temporary update.
> I created the wiki page at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2012 and filled
> in the events for Europe that I always know.
>
> I added sections for North and South America. Maybe we need also a section for Asia /
> Australia. It's a wiki, so everyone could create such a section.
>
> I've got the information from Christian Lohmaier that there is calendar add-on in our
> website (Silverstripe) and we can use it to make our user aware of the events we'll
> attend next.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
Thanks for doing this. It looks great. I too do not think that past 
events calendar event be deleted. We should use our past events as 
reference for future dates. I would also favour a "website-based" 
calendar as this is the landing point for most users.

About the Silverstripe calendar: when I checked into it a while ago, it 
did not seem to fit some of the criteria that I thought would be 
important for a useful calendar. A useful events calendar, as well as 
being able have all the regular input fields for an events calendar, 
should also offer one of these two abilities:

-- able to categorize events -- when inputting events, we should be able 
to choose the language and/or various other categories such as TDF Board 
meeting, conferences, Plugfests, etc. Users could then filter their 
calendar views as needed.

OR

-- able to add other calendars into a "master" calendar where a user 
could switch on/off the calendar view. This is done extremely well with 
Google Calendar.

Having one or the other of these abilities would give the project all 
the flexibility it would need.

At this point, I would favour embedding a master LibreOffice Google 
Calendar and the various other sections of LibreOffice (TDF SC; 
Developer; Design; Documentation; Marketing as well as the other 
language groups) would create their own calendars and the main 
international calendar could add-on the calendars the other section 
calendars. Then same could be done with the other language groups.

One of the advantages of using the Google Calendar is that we can make 
the calendar public and other groups would be able to embed our calendar 
into their sites. This, from the point of view of marketing, would also 
help us disseminate on a larger scale, any of the LibreOffice events.

This, to me, would permit the needed flexibility in events calendering 
needed by the project. Google Calendar also permits the admin of 
calendars by many individuals. I don't believe we would have any 
problems getting help with getting administrative help from our 
membership as many of us would have enough experience at inputting 
events into a Google calendar.

Cheers,

Marc

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