Might be worth looking at Calagator. It was developed for Portland's tech
community, open source I believe, and last I knew their intention was to
make a more general product. I've been out of touch since about 2009 though.
Pete
On Apr 17, 2016 8:36 PM, "Pine W" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Erika,
>
> Let's calendar a meeting about calendars. I'll contact you off-list.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pine
> On Apr 17, 2016 05:35, "Erika Herzog" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pine,
>>
>> Beyond Google calendar -- which has great functionality including copying
>> events to other calendars, color coding, etc. and also integrates with
>> mobile phone platforms well -- I think that there haven't been any other
>> good options. The more tech-versed folks over on Phabricator didn't seem to
>> have any either, which meant I think they were talking about potentially
>> building something eventually?
>>
>> I'm happy to discuss end-user functionality and how our chapter, which is
>> very active, uses Google calendar but I'm not sure of other alternatives. I
>> have been looking for a solution for a long time for my own personal use
>> and for another volunteer organization that puts on a very complex
>> conference as well as global events -- to no success. I haven't found
>> another option. Google calendar seems to be it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> - Erika
>>
>> On Apr 17, 2016, at 3:11 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Erika,
>>
>> Thanks for commenting. Since you're familiar with this issue, I'm
>> wondering if you have any alternatives to Google and other proprietary
>> software that you can recommend. Can we set up a time to discuss this via
>> Hangouts or IRC? We can have an open meeting so that others can join if
>> they wish.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pine
>> On Apr 16, 2016 18:39, "Erika Herzog" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I was unable to edit or add events to this calendar. It does not seem to
>>> be functional to the casual user?
>>>
>>> Calendaring is a huge issue. For Wikimedia NYC we are currently using
>>> Google calendars (one public calendar that lists many global tech events,
>>> and one private calendar for planning of tentative events).
>>>
>>> There has been an active discussion on Phabricator here about the need
>>> for a good solution for the many events.
>>> Consolidate the many tech events calendars in Phabricator's calendar:
>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1035
>>> Phabricator calendar
>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/calendar/
>>>
>>> Ideally open-sourced calendaring could be integrated better with
>>> Wikimedia projects, but this is not happening now as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> Folks are welcome to use the WM NYC calendar if that's helpful --
>>> located in the footer of the light orange box on our main Meetup page here:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC -- or possibly copy
>>> events into another calendar? That might be a great option, though from
>>> experience maintaining calendars can be time consuming.
>>>
>>> I also set up a calendar at one point for the existing Art+Feminism
>>> events here:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism but due
>>> to lack of support it was abandoned about 7/8ths of the way through...
>>>
>>> Feedback, solutions, suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> - Erika
>>>
>>> Erika Herzog
>>> Secretary, Wikimedia NYC
>>> User:BrillLyle
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Pine W <[email protected]>
>>> *To:* Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> *Cc:* Winifred Olliff <[email protected]>; Kacie Harold <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 16, 2016 7:45 PM
>>> *Subject:* [Wikimediaus-l] Wikimedia US public calendar
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> In an effort to make scheduling easier for everyone, I set up an
>>> unofficial public calendar for US Wikimedia events:
>>> http://localendar.com/public/Wikimedia_US
>>>
>>> Nice features:
>>>
>>> * You can add events as you wish, which will appear on the public
>>> calendar once an admin approves the posts. Feel free to add events from
>>> local affiliates. Please note the location of each event *in the name of
>>> the event*. If an event is online/virtual, you can say "online".
>>>
>>> * You can click on an event, which will create a popup that will let you
>>> export the event to your choice of calendar formats.
>>>
>>> There's no obligation to post events here, but I hope that this tool
>>> will be convenient for everyone. This is an experiment and comments are
>>> welcome.
>>>
>>> Pine
>>>
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