Re: [us-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ODF community focused on-line calendar

Hi Drew

Le 2011-12-12 10:04, drew a écrit :
> I missed a lot of it, but it was hardly new - well, it's not intended to
> be a replacement for the baked in calendar - I think what i just looked
> at is great, so far.
>
> The site I'm setting up is intended to be about more then just
> LibreOffice, but certainly about LibreOffice - or of interest to
> individuals with interests that overlap those of LibreOffice and TDF.
>
> So - It could be that in the end what I up, which is not a lot to put up
> with no customizing beyond a few dozen lines of html, will be replaced
> on the LO-Portal CMS by just taking the LibreOffice feed and aggregating
> it - or I might find a way to aggregate it right into the WebCalendar
> instance..
>
> So - no don't take this as any indication to stop working on a
> LibreOffice calendar on the main site, it's not intended to detour that.
>
> In fact just logged in to the CMS and events page - excellent, I'll add
> a few items for 2012.
>
> _and_ not sure this worked but I tried to subscribe the OUCV Calendar
> via .ics subscription to this calendar...nothing came over - at least
> not on the drat view of the page (I assume the new feed would not
> display on the published site, as I did not publish the updated page
> after the - and perhaps it doesn't actually try to read the feed until
> the page is published - don't know? Will ask that on the website list.)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> //drew
I think your calendar is more of a project unto itself and that we 
should just work on a native LibreOffice Calendar solution. We are 
already stretched to the limit with the membership and I have not seen 
any more additions to the membership list in quite a while. We can't 
keep creating all of these projects in the hopes of having someone 
taking them up and maintaining them when there is really no one to do 
this. We really only need 2-3 people on the international calendar to 
keep it up.

So, to make things easy on ourselves for now, a native LibreOffice 
calendar on SilverStripe with login/password for members who are 
interested in maintaining it, is what I would recommend. I'll throw my 
name in for this. As to ease of use, so far, from what I can see, I 
would rather use the Google Calendar than the SilverStripe calendar 
module. The Google Calendar is easily set up and can easily import ical 
files in addition, it is very easy to add/reduce categories.  On top of 
this it would be extremely easy for NL groups to add international 
events onto their Google Calendar scripts if we were to all adopt the 
Google Calendar (this is if they wanted to include the International 
calendar events into their own calendars).

I think we are almost at the point of deciding which calendar solution 
to use.

BTW ... if you are using WebCalendar, it has terrible connectivity with 
Thunderbird Lightning. Some connections work great while for unknown 
reasons others do not. This is one of the reasons I quit using it. 
Although the main dev for the project is extremely helpful. But, IMHO 
Google Calendar is quite a step up from this, if you don't mind their 
hosting your calendar. The scrips are easy to add to a site, here is an 
example on my site[1] (the events are in 2012), I'm in the process of 
moving some events to a Google Cal, just a couple more hundred to go. I 
have another with a couple of thousand to move/input -- I'll be doing 
this next week.

Cheers,

Marc

[1] http://www.musiqueancienne.org/index.php?module=content&func=view&pid=11

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