Introduction: new community guy, and some discussion

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 22:01:27 -0500,
  Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> please do let me know! Finally, for purely selfish reasons (I forget
> crap *all the time*) I floated the idea of having a calendaring system
> that everyone in the QA team could use, to track events. It turns out
> there's already a Fedora QA calendar on Google Calendar, but it looks
> like it's not really heavily used - it just has a permanent recurring
> event for the weekly meetings, with no specific description of what will
> be covered in each meeting. I'd like to make it much more shiny, so
> there's a description of each individual event and maybe even an agenda,
> and cover all the test days and so on. One thing that's quite new that
> people may not know about is that Google Calendar supports external
> services, including CalDAV, pretty well now - so you don't have to use
> GMail to look at or modify the calendar, you can integrate it into many
> apps, like Evolution, pretty easily. You still need a Google account,
> but it doesn't need to be one you really use for anything. So if anyone
> has any feedback on that idea - including 'it's a dumb idea, it's
> Google, it's proprietary crap!' - please let me know. :)

While I won't go as far as to say it's propeitary crap, it does seem odd
that the Fedora project can't run its own calendar server.