Recurrent events

[hmaurer]

Would be nice to have some way to define recurrent events for things such as weekly social. Here are some issues to tackle

• how should we represent a recurrent event? a starting date and an interval?
• what do we do if one instance of that event is cancelled for some reason?

[AngusP]

a lower tech alternate to this is something like a cron system that can auto create events, allowing cancelled ones to be deleted.

[hmaurer]

yep I think that's the most reasonable solution at the moment.

[R2ZER0]

Thinking about it, we could just use a widget to integrate with the compsoc google calendar - would be significantly easier than reinventing our whole own calendar system (this was the thinking behind hasacalendar, in part).

[moredhel]

yeah, tying into google calendar would be lovely :), I could look into parsing the .ical for a calendar...

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Thinking about it, we could just use a widget to integrate with the compsoc google calendar

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[AngusP]

The admin dash will be heavily API'd (imgur, google (calendar drive mail?)) so a client side calendar widget'd be no biggie. Could add styles so that we can also show open tech calendar events. Not also that the events model now allows for a picture if the event is_in_gallery, a feature not in gcal.

[hmaurer]

Not relevant atm; closed until it comes back up.

[AngusP]

well it is kind of relevant but n0 one is going to do it soon so...