Embedded Calendar (Codename)

Restuta commented 8 years ago

Lot's of web-sites (#18) need to show so-called event calendars so other people know when events will take place. We can deliver better and more consistent experience for the site owners and for the users.

Value for us

This would also allow us to have non-racing events as a self-updating thing, since site owners will maintain them.

Value for site owners

they have a nicer looking calendar
they have a better adding/editing experience
potentially we can bring more people, since all events become public by location
if site owner need to maintain their event in multiple places (e.g. RedKite web-site and NCNCA) this is getting reduced to just one place if both use Embedded Calendar
Value for the user
if they already use RCN and logged in they would see their planned events right in the context of site owners web-site (like SJBC winter series page)
they can interact with the calendar like they would with RCN
How it's done
we create a special type of events "Owned by Somebody" (name tbd)
we don't allow everybody to change them (mb just suggest changes like send a PR kind of thing)
we deliver polished experience for site-owners to put their events (with preview, etc)
- so they login, grab HTML code, paste it to their web-site
- start hacking around right in the context of their site
we provide "embed html" code to be included as an iframe
it can be one event (looks like a tweet, just a card with an event) or whole calendar

Potentially this can be big if done right. Since it brings "Disqus for Events" (Disqus is de-facto for comments, this can be a de-facto for Event Calendars). Can be used on NCNCA and USAC (we would require some trust and credentials for that)

Me4ta commented 8 years ago

"Owned by Somebody" - maybe "Powered by ..."?

Restuta commented 8 years ago

@Me4ta "Powered" usually means "on steroids" or "with the help of", while we need to emphasize ownership, that it's not "community owned/edited event".

This can be done with simple Text or Logo and different style of cards, no need to figure out exact wording now.

Me4ta commented 8 years ago

Ok, I see @Restuta

Restuta commented 8 years ago

Example of how similar thing is done at http://booking.timekit.io/:

Widget for availability

And configurator to build your own

Me4ta commented 8 years ago

I like the whole idea with embedded calendar and showing events, design, but it's too simple and let you just easier way to add this events in you google calendar, not more.

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