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

[Don Burke]

Steven,

Steven,

I've added your public Google calendar.  Thank you for making it public
since you are clearly maintaining it anyway.  If the open source version
can be fixed then all the better but I appreciate having this option.

Don


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:36 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>
> > In addition to the proprietary/free issue, duplicating content is awful
> > from
> > a maintenance perspective. As far as I know, there's no automatic sync in
> > place, so the wiki and Google are inevitably going to fall out of sync.
> > There are other reasons to keep the information centralized, but until
> the
> > wiki can support XML and iCal output, the benefit of using Google
> outweighs
> > the cost.
> >
>
> Just to address this: the people duplicating the content are folks like
> myself, Oliver, Philippe and Lydia who have to schedule office hours and
> make sure they get into someone's calendar anyway. Using a shared calendar
> (rather than putting them in the attendee's individual calendar alone) is
> actually much more efficient on our end.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steven
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