Posted by benc on May 4, 2006 at 4:03am
Would anyone be interested to mentor in a project to create a tool for synching Drupal's calendar with PDAs?
How about a tool for synching calendars?
Would anyone be interested to mentor in a project to create a tool for synching Drupal's calendar with PDAs?
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Finding mentors isn't our problem
Currently, I'd say lack of interest in Drupal is our problem. Last year we had around a hundred applications. We'll be lucky to get 20 this year at the rate they're coming in. Plus, only a small percentage of the applications are high quality.
too early
My bets say people are just waiting until the last minute to turn their apps in.
Yeah...
I've been hanging out in #summer-discuss as much as I dare with all the various stuff going on atm ;) and try to steer people to Drupal whenever it's appropriate. I've "hooked" (no pun intended ;)) at least a couple people into taking a look, and I know for a fact there are at least 6 more outstanding applications that I've reviewed offline but have not yet been submitted.
Though it sounds like lack of applications is not a problem unique to Drupal... one of the Subversion mentors was telling me they've only had one application so far :( and another whose name I can't recall only had 3.
Not sure if it's the busy time of year or mass procrastination or what, but it seems like people aren't jumping at the bit for this like last year for some reason. Maybe we'll get a nice surprise over the weekend, though. :)
I’ve been trying to pull
I've been trying to pull people from the university here, but there is some kind of lethargy. Or maybe because it is near the end of semester, or something, so a lot of the students are busy revisyng and/or partying.
don’t we have it already
don't we have it already with the ical feeds?
I'm syncing mine that way. The downside it is one way.
Synch
We don't actually have sync (that is, create on your desktop, shows up in Drupal, and vice versa). However, Apple's iCal only does publish OR subscribe....you can publish your local iCal via WebDAV to a server (which could be parsed/displayed by Drupal) or you can subscribe to a server-based calendar (which we can do today in Drupal, but you need to create the events in Drupal). Investigating integration with Google Calendar's APIs would be an excellent hack.
Mozilla Calendar/Sunfire lets you write back to WebDAV over which you have permissions, but it's the only client that can do this.