One small feature request? Now that events capture metro areas, any interest in building some collections? The current thought would be some small Side_bar style lists (5 or so entries) to display events for certain metro area. And or also "Recent Events" type lists for my home page views?
James On Jul 25, 8:48 pm, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > The group event idea seems interesting. I think it makes sense to let > both the events code and groups code stabilize a bit before trying to > combine 'em though. > > From the feedback so far, comments and reminders seem like the next > things to do. > > I should be able to figure out comments. I think the only thing I > need to change is the way events are accessed. I think they need to > have an owner in the url like this: /myuser/events/32. At least, > that's how it appears to me from looking at the code. Am I right, or > have I missed something? > > As for reminders, I need some kind of daemon that sends the emails at > the appropriate time. This looks promising: > > http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master > > Does anybody have a suggestion of something they think would be better > or more appropriate? > > FYI, at the moment administrators and moderators can post events. > > On Jul 22, 3:51 pm, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I agree that event posting should be limited to admins and moderators by > > default. If people want expanded access in their apps, they can easily > > change that. > > Commenting on events also seems logical, with e-mail notifications for > > anyone who has RSVP'd. > > > Thanks! > > Bruno > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:24 PM, James.d <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Here's my vote 1 & 2 > > > > 1. There should at least be a events posting role, perhaps just bundle > > > it in with moderators? > > > 2. Comments on events seems pretty easy and straight forward > > > > On Jul 21, 7:18 pm, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The latest events stuff (including RSVPs) is now in edge. I look > > > > forward to hearing feedback about it. > > > > > Where should it go next? Please try to keep in mind I am looking for > > > > ideas that apply very broadly to everybody and thus belong in core. > > > > If you have a very specific need then you should probably add that by > > > > over-riding the base CE stuff. > > > > > Some ideas I am considering: > > > > > 1. Events are now only added by the administrator. Should events be > > > > more like blog posts where all users can add events? You could then > > > > view events per user. Perhaps the Events list would collate all > > > > events by date. Perhaps this could use a review system where all > > > > users can submit events, but only the administrator can publish. > > > > > 2. RSVPs don't allow including a note. Should they? Perhaps a better > > > > solution would be to enable comments for Events -- then you add your > > > > comment to the event, not the RSVP (ala Facebook). > > > > > 3. Reminder emails for events. > > > > > 4. Export. Output as iCal? Links to add to Google calendar or Yahoo! > > > > calendar? RSS feed of Events? > > > > > I guess I'm looking for a consensus on the top one or two features > > > > that everybody thinks is essential. > > > > > On Jul 14, 12:19 am, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I think I have the RSVP stuff finished. I beefed up the validation > > > > > (make sure people can't RSVP foreventsin the past, etc.) and wrote > > > > > unit and functional tests. > > > > > > In keeping with the rest of the site design it should probably be > > > > > AJAXified. I always like to start with the simplest, old-school > > > > > interface first to make sure the design holds together. I think I'll > > > > > push it out in its current state. If everybody likes it then I'll add > > > > > AJAX-y goodness. > > > > > > On Jul 13, 12:13 am, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > So far so good. > > > > > > > The next step is implementing RSVPs forevents. > > > > > > > I am pretty close to having something. > > > > > > > Each event shows a list of attendees. Users can RSVP for an event > > > and > > > > > > enter the number of people they are bringing. Attendees can update > > > > > > their count of guests and/or retract their RSVP. > > > > > > > I've got to bang away at it a bit to see what I may have missed and > > > > > > write some tests. > > > > > > > With any luck I'll have something for you to check out in the next > > > few > > > > > > days. > > > > > > > On Jul 9, 9:56 pm, mike muldoon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I also took the liberty of adding the calendar_date_select. I > > > have > > > > > > > > used this gem on a bunch of sites and I have found it to work > > > well. > > > > > > > > Frickin awesomeness! I was installing this just today, nicely > > > > > > > done! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
