Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-04 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Allan Day  wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
>> > We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?
>>
>> Thanks Stormy, this does exactly what we need in terms of
>> functionality. Nice to pick something up that already has people
>> signed up to it, too.
>>
>> I'd like to add events to the calendar (hackfests, conferences,
>> release dates) as well as marketing planning dates (when to start
>> preparing release materials, when to post news stories, etc). I hope
>> that's OK.
>>
>
> Sounds great!

I've added some events and TODO items to the calendar, and I've linked
to it from the marketing wiki pages.

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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-02 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Allan Day  wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> > We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?
>
> Thanks Stormy, this does exactly what we need in terms of
> functionality. Nice to pick something up that already has people
> signed up to it, too.
>
> I'd like to add events to the calendar (hackfests, conferences,
> release dates) as well as marketing planning dates (when to start
> preparing release materials, when to post news stories, etc). I hope
> that's OK.
>
>
Sounds great!

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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-01 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?

Thanks Stormy, this does exactly what we need in terms of
functionality. Nice to pick something up that already has people
signed up to it, too.

I'd like to add events to the calendar (hackfests, conferences,
release dates) as well as marketing planning dates (when to start
preparing release materials, when to post news stories, etc). I hope
that's OK.

> I don't know how the find the public url for a Google calendar and I'm in
> meetings for the rest of the day (but can try later ...), but I invited you
> to it ...

There's html [1], xml [2] and ical [3]

Allan

[1] 
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mdnrfqhbsjn37b6sgad089qmak%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London
[2] 
https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/mdnrfqhbsjn37b6sgad089qmak%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
[3] 
https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/mdnrfqhbsjn37b6sgad089qmak%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-01 Thread Christy Eller
We had several people opposed to using Google, which is why we headed in
another direction- but have not been able to find a good alternative. The
Google calendar plugin would be the easiest solution, so it may come down
to a philosophical discussion unless someone has another viable option.

I hope we end up with something that satisfies everyone.

Christy

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Akshay Vyas  wrote:

> Hi
>
> you can make your google calendar public or available for selected people
> here are some links on how to obtain calendar link
> [calendar address]
> http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37104
> [Find your calendar address]
>
> http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37103&topic=1672529&ctx=topic
> [all calendar how to's]
> http://support.google.com/calendar/?hl=en
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> > We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?
> >
> > I don't know how the find the public url for a Google calendar and I'm in
> > meetings for the rest of the day (but can try later ...), but I invited
> you
> > to it ...
> >
> > Stormy
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Allan Day  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> A little while ago we spoke about setting up a calendar for GNOME
> >> marketing. I think this is really needed. (The key requirement for the
> >> calendar is that different people can subscribe to it and receive
> >> updates as events are added and modified.)
> >>
> >> We've been testing a Wordpress plugin on the gnome.org test site but
> >> I'm not getting the behaviour we need (indeed, I can't subscribe to it
> >> from my Google Calendar at all).
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to set up a shared calendar?
> >>
> >> Allan
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> >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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> >
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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-01 Thread Akshay Vyas
Hi

you can make your google calendar public or available for selected people
here are some links on how to obtain calendar link
[calendar address]
http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37104
[Find your calendar address]
http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37103&topic=1672529&ctx=topic
[all calendar how to's]
http://support.google.com/calendar/?hl=en

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Stormy Peters  wrote:
> We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?
>
> I don't know how the find the public url for a Google calendar and I'm in
> meetings for the rest of the day (but can try later ...), but I invited you
> to it ...
>
> Stormy
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Allan Day  wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> A little while ago we spoke about setting up a calendar for GNOME
>> marketing. I think this is really needed. (The key requirement for the
>> calendar is that different people can subscribe to it and receive
>> updates as events are added and modified.)
>>
>> We've been testing a Wordpress plugin on the gnome.org test site but
>> I'm not getting the behaviour we need (indeed, I can't subscribe to it
>> from my Google Calendar at all).
>>
>> Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to set up a shared calendar?
>>
>> Allan
>> --
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>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Re: Marketing Calendar

2012-05-01 Thread Stormy Peters
We have a GNOME community calendar in Google. Maybe we could use that?

I don't know how the find the public url for a Google calendar and I'm in
meetings for the rest of the day (but can try later ...), but I invited you
to it ...

Stormy

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A little while ago we spoke about setting up a calendar for GNOME
> marketing. I think this is really needed. (The key requirement for the
> calendar is that different people can subscribe to it and receive
> updates as events are added and modified.)
>
> We've been testing a Wordpress plugin on the gnome.org test site but
> I'm not getting the behaviour we need (indeed, I can't subscribe to it
> from my Google Calendar at all).
>
> Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to set up a shared calendar?
>
> Allan
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Marketing Calendar

2012-05-01 Thread Allan Day
Hi folks,

A little while ago we spoke about setting up a calendar for GNOME
marketing. I think this is really needed. (The key requirement for the
calendar is that different people can subscribe to it and receive
updates as events are added and modified.)

We've been testing a Wordpress plugin on the gnome.org test site but
I'm not getting the behaviour we need (indeed, I can't subscribe to it
from my Google Calendar at all).

Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to set up a shared calendar?

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Re: marketing calendar

2012-03-26 Thread Allan Day
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Luc Pionchon  wrote:
...
>>  * Not exposing the calendar too much on the site.
>
> Why? Isn't GNOME an open collaborative project?

gnome.org is the first point of contact before people get into the
nitty gritty. A calendar on there could appear as if it has general
significance for the whole project, rather than being specific to the
work done by the marketing team.

I'm just saying that the calendar should be exposed in the appropriate place.

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Re: marketing calendar

2012-03-26 Thread Luc Pionchon
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:47, Allan Day  wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Tobias Mueller  
> wrote:
>> Bonjour :)

Bonjour !

>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 07:11:25PM -0600, Christy Eller wrote:
>>> Yes, but I think what Allan was looking for was a reminder email.
>> Well, it should be rather easy to convert Events from a standard format like 
>> ical to emails.
>>
>> So if you provide a .ical file, one can parse that rather easily and send 
>> emails based on the results.
>
> My requirements:
>
>  * Not exposing the calendar too much on the site.

Why? Isn't GNOME an open collaborative project?


>  gnome.org is for
> public consumption, and this calendar is very much for internal
> purposes only (as much as we ever have something that is internal)
>
>  * Keeping track of changes. It would be annoying if changes were made
> to the calendar and it wasn't clear what those changes were or who had
> made them. This is a problem that Git and the GNOME infrastructure has
> solved...
>
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Re: marketing calendar

2012-03-26 Thread Allan Day
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Tobias Mueller  wrote:
> Bonjour :)
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 07:11:25PM -0600, Christy Eller wrote:
>> Yes, but I think what Allan was looking for was a reminder email.
> Well, it should be rather easy to convert Events from a standard format like 
> ical to emails.
>
> So if you provide a .ical file, one can parse that rather easily and send 
> emails based on the results.

My requirements:

 * Integration with common email clients (Google, Evolution,
Thunderbird, etc) - I want to see the marketing calendar alongside my
existing calendar

 * Ability to edit the calendar - updated should get passed out to clients

I don't see a need for email reminders right now and, as Tobi
suggests, I assume that people will be able to set up email reminders
based on the calendar, should they want them.

In the meeting we discussed the possibility of a calendar hosted on
Wordpress or an .ics file hosted on the GNOME infrastructure.
Wordpress would probably lower the barrier to editing for many
contributors. However, I do have a couple of concerns there:

 * Not exposing the calendar too much on the site. gnome.org is for
public consumption, and this calendar is very much for internal
purposes only (as much as we ever have something that is internal)

 * Keeping track of changes. It would be annoying if changes were made
to the calendar and it wasn't clear what those changes were or who had
made them. This is a problem that Git and the GNOME infrastructure has
solved...

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Re: marketing calendar

2012-03-25 Thread Tobias Mueller
Bonjour :)

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 07:11:25PM -0600, Christy Eller wrote:
> Yes, but I think what Allan was looking for was a reminder email.
Well, it should be rather easy to convert Events from a standard format like 
ical to emails.

So if you provide a .ical file, one can parse that rather easily and send 
emails based on the results.

HTH,
  Tobi
  
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Re: marketing calendar

2012-03-23 Thread Christy Eller
Yes, but I think what Allan was looking for was a reminder email. For
instance, a list is notified 3 days before a certain event or obligation
occurs, rather than when an event is added to the calendar.

Is that right Allan?

Christy

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Emily Gonyer  wrote:

> Could we write a script to notice changes and send a note out to a
> specific mailing list?
>
> Emily
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christy Eller 
> wrote:
>
>> Well, after spending way too much time looking, I have discovered that
>> there are many awesome Wordpress calendar plugins, but NONE of them send
>> email reminders, EXCEPT for the Google Calendar plugin :)
>>
>> There is one pay version of an events calendar that does, but it is very
>> complex and way overkill for what we need and missing some features we
>> would want.
>>
>> I would be fine with using the Google calendar plugin (it lets you
>> populate your calendar from inside your website, so you don't have to go to
>> Google to use it), but I understand the objections some folks have.
>>
>> There are free online calendars that send reminders. We could link to one
>> from the website, so we wouldn't have to remember a separate URL. Here is
>> one of those: http://www.mymemorizer.com/
>>
>> Wish I had the perfect solution. Other suggestions?
>>
>> Christy
>>
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Re: marketing calendar

2012-03-23 Thread Emily Gonyer
Could we write a script to notice changes and send a note out to a specific
mailing list?

Emily

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Christy Eller wrote:

> Well, after spending way too much time looking, I have discovered that
> there are many awesome Wordpress calendar plugins, but NONE of them send
> email reminders, EXCEPT for the Google Calendar plugin :)
>
> There is one pay version of an events calendar that does, but it is very
> complex and way overkill for what we need and missing some features we
> would want.
>
> I would be fine with using the Google calendar plugin (it lets you
> populate your calendar from inside your website, so you don't have to go to
> Google to use it), but I understand the objections some folks have.
>
> There are free online calendars that send reminders. We could link to one
> from the website, so we wouldn't have to remember a separate URL. Here is
> one of those: http://www.mymemorizer.com/
>
> Wish I had the perfect solution. Other suggestions?
>
> Christy
>
>
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marketing calendar

2012-03-23 Thread Christy Eller
Well, after spending way too much time looking, I have discovered that
there are many awesome Wordpress calendar plugins, but NONE of them send
email reminders, EXCEPT for the Google Calendar plugin :)

There is one pay version of an events calendar that does, but it is very
complex and way overkill for what we need and missing some features we
would want.

I would be fine with using the Google calendar plugin (it lets you populate
your calendar from inside your website, so you don't have to go to Google
to use it), but I understand the objections some folks have.

There are free online calendars that send reminders. We could link to one
from the website, so we wouldn't have to remember a separate URL. Here is
one of those: http://www.mymemorizer.com/

Wish I had the perfect solution. Other suggestions?

Christy
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