<div dir="ltr">Quim, thanks so much for the clarifications - I get it now :)<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Quim Gil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qgil@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">qgil@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Arthur Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arichards@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">arichards@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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? </div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127296" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127296</a> </div></div><span class=""><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">And is the proposal to fully migrate staff and non-staff-specific events out of Google calendar into Phabricator?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div><span class="">-- <br><div>Quim Gil<br>Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation<br><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil</a></div>
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