Hi Marc,
Thank you for the screenshot. (This is definitely the right place to
post.)
It seems like this kind of calendar could be shared / maintained by
users simply as a separate calendar.
At a workflow level however, it seems like it's generally hard for
people to do this kind of long-term time-based planning. (ie. This
week I'm going to work on X, next week I have a bunch of meetings to
take care of, the following week I'm away at a conference.)
One of the central assumptions driving Chandler's design is that
people are interrupted with such a constant stream of requests for
their time, that the best laid plans become irrelevant before you've
even had a chance to record them.
Perhaps a more realistic scenario for this kind of calendar usage
would be at a working group level. (ie. This week, we are addressing
"Issue: X", next week we're going to be evaluating candidates for Y,
the week after, our international team is convening here for a week
of intensive all-day training sessions...)
Another way to think about it might be to allow a special Free-Busy
field where users can "describe" the F/B time blocks without
revealing specific details about their events.
Mimi
On Feb 6, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Marc Gibeault wrote:
Don't know if here is the best place but when I receive this
newsletter I
often want to give back my point of view...
I posted a while ago this page;
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/RessourceAvailability
The idea was to allow for a certain type of free-busy information
on one's
public calendar; some information about what he is working on and
what is
his workload..
It would not prevent scheduling of any events but would give to others
usefull information about his availability. If I could see this
data on a
co-worker's calendar, it would help me schedule appointments or my
own work.
Kind of like a "light-weight MS Project Server".
Thanks all,
Marc Gibeault
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