NoiseCal

This page describes the specifications and implementation of a NoisyCalendar, a calendaring solution that adheres to Noisebridge's practices and principles.

Folks

• Kelly
• Leif
• Ian

Specifications

Requirements

• Publicly editable
• Unregistered editable
• Revert edits
• Publicly linkable
• Has the usual variety of calendar layouts (day, week, month, list)
• Events have a time, duration, description, recurrence, location
• Exports to iCalendar (RFC 5545)
• Widget on the wiki homepage
• Free, as in free speech and free beer
• Hosted locally

Bonus points

• Can use wiki logins or some other kind of identification in addition to anonymous
• Events have a field for which room/area of NB
• Calendars show which room/area of NB
• open source or some other moral superiority
• easy publishing to email (for nb-announce, for instance)
• misc bells and whistles
• RSS feed
• Some kind of reputation system, likely usernames. Edits can be associated with usernames.
• Tagging/Categorizing of events are useful so as to group similar events. There's a lot going on at NB! IE: "5MoF", "Conlang", "Not Happening on a Regular Basis", "Reoccuring"

Implementation

We are still at the brainstorming phase

Meetings

2010-01-23 15:00

• replace prefixsearch with cateogry->getMembers
• Parsing
  • add parsing for time
  • validate stuff (on ArticleSave or on every ViewHook). you could get a preview, even if you clicked save, if your edit is invalid. ViewHook?
  • let event description be wherever in the article
• iCalendar
  • iCalendar export
  • use objectcache for caching
• we shall use a human-readable wikiformat of the format:

= Event Details = (any heading level is acceptable) * Key: Value

Valid keys, for now, are: "Description", "When", "Where", "Recurring", "Organiser"