[Zope] Calendar (was: Portal idea)

[David Kankiewicz]

"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
> 
> At 03:16 AM 9/7/99 +0900, chas wrote:
> >At 02:32 PM 9/6/99 -0400, Rob Page wrote:
> >>
> >>Wow.. a great analysis of the whole Calendar/Schedule/Event problem!
> >>I'd encourage anyone considering calendar/schedule issues on their Zope
> >>projects to re-read Phillip's post.
> >>
> >>Now, if we could only insert about a man month to implement and
> >>document... <sigh>
> >
> >I know... he scared me off :(
> 
> Sorry.  That's just how I design - think about what the problem *really*
> needs, and then figure out how to do a scaled down version of it that's
> actually implementable within budget.
> 
great post, it enlightened me on a few things I hadn't thought. :)

> The nice thing about this approach is that it:
> 
> A) helps prevent you getting stuck further down the road, and
> 
> B) often gives you a simpler way of doing things, with spin-off benefits
> you weren't originally looking for.  Polya's Paradox states that it's often
> easier to create a general solution for a class of problems and then to
> specialize it for your specific problem, than to build a specialized
> solution just for your one problem.  The ZPublisher concept itself is a
> brilliant application of this principle.
> 
> >But it WAS a great post and brought up a lot of requirements
> >and considerations that I hadn't thought about.
> 
Ditto to all that, thanks for taking the time and posting.

<snip>
> 
> There is a good chance that I or other members of my team will be tackling
> some of these items in the not-too-distant future, though I expect it could
> be quite a while before we have a robust general system.

Same problem here.. I'll be working on this type of system in the next
month or so...

> 
> I *do* have some interest in design collaboration by fellow Zopesters,
> however, and I think it would be great if we could hash out the interface
> protocol for the different pieces and then all begin making components that
> work according to that API.
> 
And the reason I posted, I'd like to be included in that collaboration
and
I'm wondering if any of you have seen the XML implementation of
iCalendar?? I have the file/link if the answer is no.  I was going to
follow that outline of requirements unless something better is
developed.. :)

Regards,
David

> Maybe Zope needs some SIG's along the lines of the various Python SIG's...
> Hmmm.  :)
>