An Invitation to Attend the Next Eclectic Design Research Group Meeting
[This is more or less a copy of an email invitation sent out to a wider audience than our normal meeting announcements are sent to.]
In the next meeting of the Eclectic Design Research Group we will be talking about Calendaring Software, and general issues surrounding how we are able to, and how we would like to, keep track of events, share calendars, etc. We thought that these issues might have a broader appeal to members of the GSLIS community than our meeting topics normally have, so we thought we’d make a broader announcement of our meeting than we normally do. So please feel free to stop on by, and join us:
Thursday, February 7, 2008
2 pm to 4 pm (or any period in between that you can make it)
ISRL Commons (Room 340)
As usual, our plans are flexible, so feel free to bring any ideas, questions, or concerns you may have to the meeting. Topics we intend to cover include:
- Evaluating existing calendaring systems, including (most of) the following:
- Google Calendar
- Chandler
- iCal
- Yahoo Calendar
- Sunbird/Lightning
- Others? Oracle? Outlook? Eudora? Feel free to suggest something.
- Practice adding events to the shared Google Calendar we have created for the EDRG
- Use this as an exercise to see what functionality the calendar is good for, and what is missing that we desire or need.
- We may try this out on other calendaring systems as well.
- Quick-and-dirty evaluations of the usability of installing, and sharing between different calendaring systems
- Take a look at various calendaring standards
- Including a quick-and-dirty survey of how widely they are adopted, what kinds of sharing they afford, etc.
- We will also discuss what kind of content we want to include in the calendar.
- Originally, we intended it to keep track of submission deadlines, but we are also looking to add local talks and presentations that might be of interest to group members, including casual members.
- Other related issues? Feel free to suggest some.
Toward the end of the meeting we will also discuss some other issues,
such as potential submissions to publication venues, e.g.:
- Invitation to Champaign I-School Students to submit to the Doctoral Consortium at DESRIST
In any case, if you are interested, feel free to stop by. We will be happy to have you join us, both for next meeting, and on a more regular basis if you find what we do interesting. We will be having at least one more meeting that will be of a more general appeal this semester: looking into practices, tools, and technologies which people use to maintain their bibliographic databases. If you can’t join us this week, hopefully you can join us then.
Note: We typically go out for dinner after the meeting–you are welcome to join us for this if you are interested, even if you cannot attend the meeting.