Re: [Tools-discuss] interim meetings calendar

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Robert,

On Mar 1, 2017 13:31, "Robert Sparks" <[e-mail]> wrote:



On 3/1/17 9:00 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:

> When we have official (virtual) interim meetings, it requires IESG
> approval,
> and the secretariat makes an announcement.  I don't know if the secretariat
> has a way to record these in the datatracker in such a way that a ics feed
> can be created?   Do we have plans to make that happen?
>
> We do not require approval for design team meetings, but I feel it would be
> useful to keep track of them.
>
> I don't propose to change that, but rather to make it easier for people to
> know when things are, given time zones, etc. and that CST doesn't always
> mean
> North America Central time... and to make sure everyone has the right
> meeting
> join URLs.
>
> My suggestion for an interim measure is for the secretariat to maintain a
> calendar to which design teams and virtual interims could "invite".
> (If using ietf.webex.com, you'd just always populate the who to invite
> with
> this virtual calendar)
>
> This could be trivially done with a google (or other) account/calendar that
> auto-accepts all invitations.  Ideally, the ietf.webex.com would produce a
> feed of all meetings it knows about.    This could be an @ietf.org alias
> which later on goes into the datatracker perhaps.
>
Michael - it may not _quite_ be what you're looking for yet, but there is
an ics download
of the upcoming interim meetings that the datatracker knows about already.

On https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming (which you can navigate to
from the menus),
there's a [Download as .ics] button. It links to
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.ics,
which you can subscribe to using your favorite calendaring program.


I peeked at this, and it's 99 percent of what I would like for interim
meetings (so, great, and thank you for the clue), but it gives me every
session in every meeting slot for IETF 98, down to refreshment breaks.
That's just under 40 entries each on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

That might be the right answer for everyone else, but there was a separate
interim meetings URL, that would be a better answer for me, the way I do
calendaring.

Thanks,

Spencer

RjS


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