Mimi Yin wrote:
If I stamp-as-email, address, then send to invite people to an event,
how does inviting more people later work? I edit the existing email and
hit send again? That's really different than what I'm used to, but I
guess that could work. I suppose uninviting people could work the same
way...
Think of it as Edit and Update?
I think this has both technical and user-level issues.. but I think the
user-level issues dominate. Personally I think edit-and-update is not a
model that makes sense for invitations. This is also why I don't think
stamping as a way of inviting makes any sense.
When I have a party, I send out invitations - be it via e-vite, paper
cards, or whatever. and people reply to tell me they are coming, But the
invitation is an entity unto itself - its sometimes a physical thing but
ultimately it is an idea, a desire for someone to attend an event. I
don't think of that as a modification to my party, or really even a
modification to my original invitation. An invitation is just that:
something that invites someone to an event. Its not the event itself. An
invitation is something you send - it isn't a collaboration between the
inviter and the invitee. I think that looking at it like stamping makes
it sound like "I'm having a party in which one property is your
attendance. If this isn't the correct definition of my party, please
modify the event."
Anyway, that's my stamping-invitation 2 cents:)
Alec
** Probably out-of-scope for 0.7 **
(but I'll mention them briefly, anyway)
- Delegation (Esther organizes and/or schedules a meeting for Mitch).
This is part of iTIP, SWAG: 5 days
- Countering a meeting invitation with an alternate time (and accepting
or declining counters). Part of iTIP. The message body for this is
easy, getting the UI right might be hard. SWAG: 10 days
Well ideally, this would all be worked out in the item conversation,
rather than all going back to the meeting organizer.
- Cancelling meetings. Again, part of iTIP, easy, good UI isn't
necessary, although of course it would be nice to highlight
cancellations somehow, which might take more effort. SWAG: 1 day
- Jabber transport for invitations (I really want to play with this,
maybe in my self-directed time), SWAG: Large
- "home time" free/busy vs. "work time". For instance, if I go on
vacation for a week, I want family and friends to see a different
free/busy than coworkers. I think figuring out how to do this would
probably be hard.
If you've gotten this far, that means you actually read the whole
message. Congratulations, and thanks. :)
Have a nice night,
Jeffrey
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