[teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The two teams I work with (CL and Collaboration) both use their team's
gcalendar (using copied events from personal calendars) to track member's:
vacations, extended-sickdays, traveldays, etc.
That can get noisy during some weeks (eg hackathons...  This week I have 13
lines of "all day" events at the top, for Tuesday!), but is otherwise very
useful, and even the bulk on noisy days emphasises just how busy people are
with non-standard activities.


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:33 PM, James Douglas <jdouglas at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> I think we can do this with Google Calendar, in the same way that other
> shared calendars (e.g. WMF Engineering) work.
>
> I haven't set one up before, but surely it can be done.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Do we have any best practices for tracking team member vacations, travel,
>> etc.? The best I heard so far is a google doc, given the privacy concerns
>> of revealing when people won't be home. But the format isn't very handy if
>> the team has more than 3-5 people.
>>
>> The last place I worked had a little self-hosted app that was pretty
>> cool. It showed where everyone was in the world, as well as whether they
>> were working or out.
>>
>> Oh, and I'm asking mostly for teams into which we are embedded, but the
>> same question would apply to TPG itself. Especially as we grow.
>>
>> Kevin Smith
>> Agile Coach
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
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