1. Overview
    1. Method 1 : *.ics files in subversion
      1. Publishing a calendar
    2. Getting a hold of calendars
    3. Method 2: Google Calendar
    4. Method 3: .mac account
      1. Team members calendar URIs

Overview

Letting people know what you're doing is difficult. Even more difficult still is keeping track of what others are doing and the dependencies therein. For Omero, all team members are responsible for keeping a publicly accessible calendar (*.ics) available. This doesn't eliminate the need for discussion but it at least means that everyone can see what everyone else is doing at any time. Currently, three options are immediately available.

Method 1 : *.ics files in subversion

The first supported way of tackling this problem is with a centralized, Subversion managed calendaring resource.

Publishing a calendar

WebDAV publishing is basically... out. It'd require everyone to have another set of passwords and we'd have no way of tracking changes or backing up calendars without using the very suspect auto-versioning features of Subversion's WebDAV integration. So, a compromise is that we're using the same SVN+SSH Subversion URIs that we use for everything else along with a new "cal" repository.

For Windows, there is a nice, friendly GUI tool that will let you work with Subversion repositories:

For Mac OS X, there is of course the command line tools which can be conveniently installed via packages available from here:

and GUI tools:

You are then responsible for working on the following Subversion URI:

  •  svn+ssh://<username>@cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/home/svn/cal/trunk/omero

PLEASE commit files in "/home/svn/cal/trunk/omero" and PLEASE follow the "<username>.ics" naming convention.

Getting a hold of calendars

You can browse all the calendars that are available by looking here:

The easiest way to grab a calendar is to use the subscription features of:

using WebDAV URIs like:

Method 2: Google Calendar

Recently, Google began the beta version (but what isn't beta at Google) of their calendar service. Visit  http://calendar.google.com for specific information. But all Google calendars are exportable in the *.ics format.

Method 3: .mac account

A further option is to use iCal directly on a Mac, and export the *.ics to a .Mac account. This is then viewable online like  this, but can also be viewed directly as  *.ics.

Team members calendar URIs

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