[CentOS-devel] A project calendar

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 03:26:43PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 06:28:34PM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > On 28/03/14 13:31, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > There is quite a lot of stuff going on and not all of it is easily
> > > visible to everyone. The way to perhaps address that is to setup a
> > > project calendar that people can sync against and look at regularly. And
> > > more win if we can have it slightly open ended, allowing people /
> > > projects / sig's to contribute events into that cal.
> > > 
> > > To that extent Stephen Smoogen introduced me to Pierre-Yves Chibon who
> > > runs the fedocal effort, and they have graciously agreed to set
> > > something up for CentOS as well. Stephen I know is on this list already,
> > > I've requested Pierre to join ( he might have done so already ).
> > > 
> > > Firstly looking for comments on the idea / plan - and then for options
> > > on implemention, publishing and consumption of the calendar.
> > > 
> > I really like the idea of having one place to look at and concatenating
> > multiple calendars at once (and that gives the possibility to respective
> > groups/SIGs to master their own calendars too).
> > I didn't know Fedocal and had a quick look at the doc. I like the fact
> > that iCal is supported, but only in read-only mode, so one has to use
> > the WebUI to add event to the calendar(s) (or upload a ics).
> 
> My understanding is that iCal is always read-only. To get read/write you have to
> move to caldav which is a complete other level of complexicity/breakability.
> 
> Once question though, does the CentOS infrastructure has an account system?
> Currently Fedocal relies on FedOAuth which provides OpenID (and persona) and
> combined with the openid-teams extension fedocal is able to manage
> authorization.
> FedOAuth [1] might be something interesting for CentOS, otherwise we can of
> courss look at adapting fedocal to the current CentOS infrastructure.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/FedOAuth/FedOAuth

No account system? :)

Pierre