[teampractices] Who doesn't love calendars?

[Arthur Richards]

Quim, thanks so much for the clarifications - I get it now :)

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
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> This is about public events. Either Wikimedia Events (Tech Talks, Office
> Hours, Lightning Talks, Architecture RfC meetings, hachathons, editathons,
> WikiCons, and more) or other events interesting for Wikimedians (FOSDEM,
> FOSSAsia, DebConf, OSCON, Grace Hopper, and many more). There is no single
> place to list all these events, even less to query them according to your
> interests, subscribe to them for updates, or add them to your calendar.
>
> If a WMF employee like you see some of these events in their Google
> Calendars, it is mostly because someone nice walked the extra mile and
> added it, probably in addition of two or more public calendars. Volunteers
> in our community don't have access to this calendar, so they will need to
> add these event to their own calendar manually.
>
> In other words, a big mess prone to fail and not be very useful in many
> situations, resulting in less awareness of our activities, and probably one
> of the causes for less participation.
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127296
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>> And is the proposal to fully migrate staff and non-staff-specific events
>> out of Google calendar into Phabricator?
>>
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> No, the proposal is not to move any event from WMF Google Calendar to
> Phabricator. One part of the proposal is to have integration between
> Phabricator Calendar and .ics and/or Google Calendar, so a user like you
> could take a future Phabricator calendar (i.e. Tech Talks, Extension
> Newsletter weekly IRC standups, or whatever) and copy it over to your
> Google Calendar.
>
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> Quim Gil
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