[Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

[Michael Peel]

I'm seriously having a hard time believing this. It's a trivial calendar. There are so many open solutions available. See, for example, just looking at mediawiki-integrated calendar solutions:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar

I constructed a calendar system, relying just on PHP functions, a decade ago (albeit integrated with phpbb rather than mediawiki). It's not a big problem to solve in an open source manner.

There is, simply, *no* excuse for using a closed source piece of software to do this for Wikimedia purposes.

The mind boggles at this situation...

Mike

On 5 May 2012, at 01:49, Oliver Keyes wrote:

> And, as said, they are listed on a wiki and will continue being listed on a
> wiki. We're augmenting open solutions with non-open solutions, not
> replacing them.
> 
> On 5 May 2012 01:42, Michael Peel <michael.peel at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Open source calendar software is trivially available. Or there's wikis and
>> microformats. Or even hand-crafted calendar files. Google calendars may be
>> a popular solution, but they're a recent one and are hardly the only
>> solution out there. And they're definitely not a mission-aligned solution.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> On 5 May 2012, at 01:26, Jaan-Cornelius Kibelka <jckibelka at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Come on, Michael, do you know a better solution? If there's no open
>> source
>>> solution, Google Calender is the easiest way to fulfill the needs.
>>> 
>>> Cornelius
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5 May 2012 02:09, Michael Peel <michael.peel at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You cannot be serious. A google calendar for this? Fail. Completely.
>>>> 
>>>> Please let us know when there is an open source, freely licensed,
>>>> community edited calendar available. Y'know, a solution that follows
>>>> Wikimedia's main principles?
>>>> 
>>>> Mike
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 5 May 2012, at 00:30, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Per a great suggestion from Jan-Bart, I have created a public Google
>>>>> Calendar that anyone can subscribe to for IRC office hours:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRC_office_hours&diff=3714509&oldid=3714468
>>>>> 
>>>>> If this isn't working for anyone, let me know offlist.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
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>>>>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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