saltybeagle is in APS4 Bedework Calendar Implementation #heweb08

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Oct 06, 2008 - 06:58PM

daugustine says avoiding the javascript: void("") over here
Oct 06, 2008 - 06:58PM

saltybeagle says of course, the big guy has to take the seat right in front of me.
Oct 06, 2008 - 06:58PM

saltybeagle says blocking my view
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:03PM

saltybeagle says Cornelia Ann Bailey, University of Chicago
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:04PM

saltybeagle says appears to be an introduction to what bedework is
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:05PM

smeranda says open source?
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:06PM

saltybeagle says www.uchicago.edu/ dynamic front page, old calendar would blow up at any time
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:07PM

daugustine says ooh... i like their homepage
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:08PM

saltybeagle says going over calendar standards: iCalendar, iCal, CALDAV
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:11PM

saltybeagle says sample sites: events.rpi.edu/ event.uchicago.edu/cal/
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:14PM

saltybeagle says they use two RH5 vm's with mysql
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:15PM

smeranda says good use of red on uchigao.edu
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:16PM

saltybeagle says "calendar is only as good as the number and quality of events entered in the system"
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:17PM

saltybeagle says smeranda yes, nice site
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:18PM

daugustine says now if I could find some way to get the staff to actually put their events in the calendar
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:22PM

saltybeagle says bedework has widgets to remotely grab events for display on other sites.
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:26PM

saltybeagle says encourages someone to maintain the system, post events, dig up important events, quality assurance
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:29PM

saltybeagle says notes for implementingon't start with replacing the central calendar, do something safer first.
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:35PM

saltybeagle says really easy to evaluate, one download, and if your desktop pc is strong enough you can run it
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:37PM

smeranda says looks and sounds like a sweet calendar.
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:37PM

saltybeagle says began evaluating in 2005... and decided to go with bedework
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:41PM

saltybeagle says I don't think bedework looks that great (visually), but they've got a lot of great features
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:41PM

smeranda says is it open source?
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:42PM

saltybeagle says yep!
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:44PM

saltybeagle says question from the audience, "have you had any problems with failsafes & race conditions" :-|
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:45PM

saltybeagle says seems kinda slow
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:46PM

saltybeagle says audience--- "race conditions, 500 errors, we've fixed some, but theres still more" 50 users, 4 servers,
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:46PM

saltybeagle says sounds like an audience member has had quite a few issues and errors with their deployment
Oct 06, 2008 - 07:47PM

saltybeagle says but, their developer doesn't communicated well, and isn't that pro-active about fixing errors
Oct 07, 2008 - 01:36AM

evilpythagoras says so when are giving your talk on events.unl.edu
Oct 07, 2008 - 03:03AM

saltybeagle lot of work to be done before I'd go bragging about it

saltybeagle is in APS4 Bedework Calendar Implementation #heweb08

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