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Provide infrastructure for calendars and co.

Open infinisil opened this issue 2 years ago • 12 comments

There's currently an "official" Google calendar, but it's currently neither linked anywhere and only modifiable by a very limited number of people (and it's not documented who these people are).

There's also a community calendar on Discourse, which allows anybody to add events, but it's very limited in functionality.

The NixOS Foundation should provide better infrastructure for calendars, so that events are discoverable and easy to modify and use.

This could be fixed by setting up "Groupware infrastructure" like a Google Workspace for the entire Nix community, which would then also provide a lot of other benefits. Though ideally it would be something not Google related.

This was discussed today by the @NixOS/documentation-team.

infinisil avatar Dec 08 '22 16:12 infinisil

This looks interesting, very recent: https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-integration-plugin-beta/241170

infinisil avatar Dec 08 '22 18:12 infinisil

Moved the ticket to the right team.

I asked Flying Circus if they could add the plugin as they manage the discourse instance.

zimbatm avatar Dec 09 '22 10:12 zimbatm

This looks unresolved to me? The plugin mentioned by Silvan has been migrated into https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776 by now.

Maybe we can poke FC again?

mweinelt avatar Sep 12 '23 14:09 mweinelt

That's right. There is a private Matrix channel that we use to communicate with FC and I invited you to it.

zimbatm avatar Sep 12 '23 15:09 zimbatm

If the Discourse solution is not pursued, I would suggest a NextCloud, it would be an awesome addition as a NC piece of infrastructure. This is how https://framagenda.org/ do it.

It would pave the way for much more than calendars.

RaitoBezarius avatar Sep 29 '23 23:09 RaitoBezarius

I'm favorable to deploy a nextcloud on the non-critical infrastructure, at least as a test period to see if it can be adopted by other teams.

JulienMalka avatar Oct 03 '23 14:10 JulienMalka

I already poked in the discourse room, and I hope to hear back from them soon.

Also, I'm opposed to deploy nextcloud just for a calendar.

mweinelt avatar Oct 03 '23 15:10 mweinelt

We could use https://cal.com/ that integrates with google calendar, allows scheduling events, adding them, etc.

Then if the calendar is public, I'm sure there are plenty of widgets to display it on the website.

domenkozar avatar Oct 03 '23 16:10 domenkozar

I think it's important though that it offers a standard calendar feed to be consumed by other people automation systems.

It would be annoying to deal with an non standard abiding silo.

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We could use https://cal.com/ that integrates with google calendar, allows scheduling events, adding them, etc.

Then if the calendar is public, I'm sure there are plenty of widgets to display it on the website.

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RaitoBezarius avatar Oct 03 '23 16:10 RaitoBezarius

Also, I'm opposed to deploy nextcloud just for a calendar.

Nextcloud seems like heavy machinery for calendars alone, but deploying it would empower teams to try and deploy new workflows using it. Nothing prevents us from switching to another solution if we see that it's used only for calendars in a few months.

JulienMalka avatar Oct 03 '23 17:10 JulienMalka

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-survival-mode-macos-upgrades-wont-break-nix-anymore-when-you-install-nix-using-the-determinate-nix-installer/34593/8

nixos-discourse avatar Oct 25 '23 20:10 nixos-discourse

Still important to me.

RaitoBezarius avatar Feb 09 '24 16:02 RaitoBezarius