Quim, thanks so much for the clarifications - I get it now :) On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Thanks Quim for your response - I really appreciate you helping me >> understand this better, but I'm still not fully grokking this, perhaps >> because I am a staffer who exclusively uses Google Calendar. Is the issue >> that there are events that are open to non-staff that are being managed in >> multiple places, making it confusing to know where to look for event >> information? When you say 'Wikimedia events' - do you mean Wikimedia >> movement events, or Wikimedia Foundation events, or something totally >> different? >> > > This is about public events. Either Wikimedia Events (Tech Talks, Office > Hours, Lightning Talks, Architecture RfC meetings, hachathons, editathons, > WikiCons, and more) or other events interesting for Wikimedians (FOSDEM, > FOSSAsia, DebConf, OSCON, Grace Hopper, and many more). There is no single > place to list all these events, even less to query them according to your > interests, subscribe to them for updates, or add them to your calendar. > > If a WMF employee like you see some of these events in their Google > Calendars, it is mostly because someone nice walked the extra mile and > added it, probably in addition of two or more public calendars. Volunteers > in our community don't have access to this calendar, so they will need to > add these event to their own calendar manually. > > In other words, a big mess prone to fail and not be very useful in many > situations, resulting in less awareness of our activities, and probably one > of the causes for less participation. > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127296 > > > >> And is the proposal to fully migrate staff and non-staff-specific events >> out of Google calendar into Phabricator? >> > > No, the proposal is not to move any event from WMF Google Calendar to > Phabricator. One part of the proposal is to have integration between > Phabricator Calendar and .ics and/or Google Calendar, so a user like you > could take a future Phabricator calendar (i.e. Tech Talks, Extension > Newsletter weekly IRC standups, or whatever) and copy it over to your > Google Calendar. > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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