[Imc-uk-useability] calendar wiki up for ideas

[yossarian]

Wow, a sudden outburst of calendar-related debate!

I worked on a bunch of tech things this past weekend, so we now have a
server to test some of these ideas on that is (mostly) working.  And I
also took a crack at writing up some of the ideas I've gathered from
people so far, and turning them into a set of mini-specification
documents, detailing what screens the calendar would need to show to
accomplish what people want, and also a quick summary of what the domain
classes and database tables would look like (this is more for the geeks
among you).

I'll try to put those up later in the day.

If anybody can summarize the ideas re building an archive into a couple
succinct paragraphs, that'd be quite cool, then I can add them to the
documentation I'm building.  I also have a tiny bit of working calendar
code that I'm not going to show anybody yet because I'm not even totally
sure what language this thing should ultimately get written in and don't
want to prejudice the discussion.  So far I think that all ideas I have
seen could be accomplished by an external site, in any language, without
writing a Mir module, although this may still on the cards.  However
there may still be some things that would require some Java coding (Mir
is written in the Java programming language for those who are not sure
why I am saying this). 

Yossarian

ps thanks to all of you that have contributed ideas so far, I actually
haven't been doing much original thinking myself here, but the amount of
good ideas from people has been phenomenal.  I talked to the London
collective about it at their meeting last week and they were supportive
and had some good stuff to say ("What if you could upload a poster to go
with the event?"). 



clara wrote:

>hi
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>>question: giving the date of a reported event - in a box in the publish
>>form? please enter the date and place of your event here?
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>yes, either typing in the date or selecting it from a calendar (there is
>the problem with getting the format right). locations probably need to
>be for-defined set like tick boxes for each UK collective
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>>question: how would the urls of the reports about a certain event make
>>it into the initial calender entry?
>>via the publish form?
>>(box to enter the URL of the calender entry when you post your report?)
>>would such thing make the publish form too complex?
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>that needs a technical solution, but i think yossarian had an idea about
>that while we were discussion that in the pub last week. in any case
>automatic, and not through manually copying the url of the calendar
>entry. it needs to be a "one-stop posting".
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>>One of the major annoyances on imc pages for me is that they are so
>>bloody difficult to search. If we allow posters to categorise more,
>>wouldn't that be a kind of "tagging"? Not only according to topics and
>>regions, but also according to dates and specific events? And if we can
>>do this, would it then also be possible to code something like
>>backtracking, so we could see who has linked to an imc archive entry?
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>yes, it would be a tagging by date.
>so it could lead to a calendar that has two parts: one is forward
>looking with the announcements, the other one backward looking thereby
>forming an archive where you can click on the event or the whole day.
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>>best
>>ionnek
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>>ekes wrote:
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>>>clara wrote:
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>>>>But we could also go a step further. Now in the archives all articles
>>>>are listed by the dat they are posted. But couldn't we also have field
>>>>where you can give the day of the event itself?
>>>>Then we could make an archive where you can click on a date, and you
>>>>will see all the reports about events that happened last sunday, no
>>>>matter whether they were posted on monday or tuesday.
>>>>That would be a much more functional archive.
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>>>Genius. Why don't we do this already? We have a newswire stuck
>>>displaying things in posting order.
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>>>We want to promote people posting about events. We want to make it easy
>>>to read what people have posted about them - so collect them together.
>>>At the moment it is really hard to follow... this would make is /easy/
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>>>ekes
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