Provide infrastructure for calendars and co.

[infinisil]

There's currently an "official" Google calendar, but it's currently neither linked anywhere and only modifiable by a very limited number of people (and it's not documented who these people are).

There's also a community calendar on Discourse, which allows anybody to add events, but it's very limited in functionality.

The NixOS Foundation should provide better infrastructure for calendars, so that events are discoverable and easy to modify and use.

This could be fixed by setting up "Groupware infrastructure" like a Google Workspace for the entire Nix community, which would then also provide a lot of other benefits. Though ideally it would be something not Google related.

This was discussed today by the @NixOS/documentation-team.

[infinisil]

This looks interesting, very recent: https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-integration-plugin-beta/241170

[zimbatm]

Moved the ticket to the right team.

I asked Flying Circus if they could add the plugin as they manage the discourse instance.

[mweinelt]

This looks unresolved to me? The plugin mentioned by Silvan has been migrated into https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776 by now.

Maybe we can poke FC again?

[zimbatm]

That's right. There is a private Matrix channel that we use to communicate with FC and I invited you to it.

[RaitoBezarius]

If the Discourse solution is not pursued, I would suggest a NextCloud, it would be an awesome addition as a NC piece of infrastructure.
This is how https://framagenda.org/ do it.

It would pave the way for much more than calendars.

[JulienMalka]

I'm favorable to deploy a nextcloud on the non-critical infrastructure, at least as a test period to see if it can be adopted by other teams.

[mweinelt]

I already poked in the discourse room, and I hope to hear back from them soon.

Also, I'm opposed to deploy nextcloud just for a calendar.

[domenkozar]

We could use https://cal.com/ that integrates with google calendar, allows scheduling events, adding them, etc.

Then if the calendar is public, I'm sure there are plenty of widgets to display it on the website.

[RaitoBezarius]

I think it's important though that it offers a standard calendar feed to be consumed by other people automation systems. It would be annoying to deal with an non standard abiding silo. Le mar. 3 oct. 2023 à 18:26, Domen Kožar ***@***.***> a écrit :

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[JulienMalka]

Also, I'm opposed to deploy nextcloud just for a calendar.

Nextcloud seems like heavy machinery for calendars alone, but deploying it would empower teams to try and deploy new workflows using it. Nothing prevents us from switching to another solution if we see that it's used only for calendars in a few months.

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-survival-mode-macos-upgrades-wont-break-nix-anymore-when-you-install-nix-using-the-determinate-nix-installer/34593/8

[RaitoBezarius]

Still important to me.