Expanding UW Events - planning
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on November 13, 2006 at 08:37 AM
Sasha (the Co-op) is slugging it out with the UW Events Ruby code, trying to create some new features for the folks on campus. What are those features? Well some are things Mitch and I considered while Version 1.0 was in the works, other things I think might be useful in the future, but generally they are features I hope the UW community will find useful (as well as others once the project goes to RubyForge).
Essentially we are going to allow public personal calendars that will be in both hCal and iCal (and import iCal) and have notifications/alerts by email and SMS. This means we have to extend our personal profile page and functionality without changing the core code of the system—something that seems relatively easy with Ruby on Rails. We will have to build a better profile for people as well so it can include custom data, not just what we get from UWdir. Not sure if that belongs in Kiwi or in the UW events app. Kiwi has a single job to do and it does it well, not sure I want it to be a profile system.
We are thinking about integrating the upcoming.org API and the Facebook API but we shall see how that goes. If you have any requests, make them now ;)