Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] 2.0, event and user management, and corporate sponsorship

[Chad <ch...@ch...>]

Scott,

We'd love to be able to add editing to the next version after 2.0. 2.0 
is pretty close to a beta release and I'd like to keep it feature 
frozen as to not lose track of all the changes. I'd also be happy to 
provide any guidance / testing for the features you wish to help 
implement as far as editing.

The tricky part of editing is being able to maintain a copy of the 
calendar on the local computer and a copy on the server. Many people 
want to 'edit anywhere' which presents a major problem. Which version 
is the real version of the calendar? How do we merge changes? It might 
be best to go with an 'either or' type of calendar where its either 
edited on their local computer or its editing on the server, not both. 
Certainly someone could start the calendar and then import it for 
editing on the web based side.

We'd also need to have an export feature for this, so calendars edited 
via the web could be subscribed to and downloaded. I'd assume the web 
based calendar to be in a stored database (possibly using PEAR to allow 
many types of DBs).

As you can see there is alot to plan for, and I'm still curious if 
another open source project doesn't already do all this.

-C

On Jun 21, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Scott Brown wrote:

> I have a large corporate client that would like to implement a 
> customized
> version of PHP iCalendar. Two of the feature necessities for my client 
> are
> event creation/deletion/editing and allowing different groups of users
> different view/edit/create privileges.
>
> This presents a certain positive opportunity for accelerating and 
> improving
> the development of PHPiCal 2.0, since it would have "corporate 
> sponsorship"
> so to speak. One possible approach would be contracting a reliable and
> proven offshore outsourcing firm to handle much of the bug fixing and
> implementation details, with input and direction from the current
> contributors working on 2.0.
>
> What are everyone's thoughts on this?
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
> FYI - I posted this to the forum, but that place seems pretty dead, so 
> I
> figured it'd be better heard here.
>
>
>
>
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