On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Is it >> > possible to set up group aliases in google calendar, allowing you >> > quickly >> > set up a meeting with a certain 10 people? >> >> I don't see how that's possible given all of those 10 people have >> different scheduled :/ > > > Being able to enter, say "search-team" as a guest, and have the system > auto-expand that as if I had entered 10 names is a reasonable feature. Not > one that exists, apparently, but it would be nice if it did. Just today I > realized that I had invited 6 of our 7 team members to a meeting, because I > had to type all the names in, and I forgot one. > >> >> I don't find it too hard to schedule ~10 people for a meeting... It's >> >> not a fun job that I tend to just offload to Sarah, Megan, Praveena, >> with immense gratitude. > > > Absolutely. For actually scheduling a meeting, they do a great job. But for > me to quickly answer the question "How much of our team will be around next > week?", or "Where's teammate Betty today?", existing tools don't work well. > Creating a pretend event, and then typing in 10 names, only to discard it > moments later, is annoying. > > Before I started this thread, I had a brief informal chat with Sarah about > team calendars. She seemed ambivalent about them. If she had felt strongly > one way or the other, I might not have brought this to a wider audience.
Unsolicited $0.02: I'm a remotie (oh hey that means we are all remoties) who works with diverse people on diverse projects in diverse timezones. I don't care if you are at the doctor's office, in Guam or working in your pajamas. If I have a question for you I will: ping on irc, send an email, cc you on a phab task, comment on a code review, schedule a meeting. If I am really out of the office and won't be at least daily checking any and all of these communication channels I will set an away message on my email giving a short timeline to @wikimedia.org email addresses. If there is any information I can only get from a single person other than "what's your favorite ice cream flavor?" then we have already failed as a distributed organization. The time I spend at my keyboard or not should only be of mild concern to my direct report manager who may be asked questions by HR if I appear to never or always be on vacation. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
