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43 Folders on Group Scheduling

43 Folders reports on a funny lo-fi way to find the best date for an event based on several people?s schedules. It’s a clever idea, but of course a MUCH more convenient way is to set up a free group calendar at CalendarHub.

I’ll done something like that for organizing the 31th december party: a spreadsheet at numsum, http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show/4418 for counting people who came, and when (the hours are for the boat). But I have to edit everything myself after replies. I hope that public editing will arrive at numsum, wiki-like. I’m actively lobbying for that.

ok, english grammar isn’t on my side today.

Emailing a text-based scheduler

Coordinating meeting availability is hard.  The concept of an emailable text-based meeting scheduler makes it easier, but I’m thinking this would suck in an environment where most everyone is using proportional-width fonts and/or HTML in email.

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Why not try this? :

http://www.meetingwithapproval.com

Does the same thing, but with automatic mailing &c, does not require an account.

It’s http://www.meetwithapproval.com .. my apologies

I have a similar tool I created back in 1999 but with a CGI interface (easier to manipulate the columns and people can respond asynchronously). See http://thinking.teiru.net/sched

I had ideas for improving the interface (allowing the table to be rotated so that the people are listed in rows rather than in columns, only displaying each user’s entries while they are editing them, allowing users to add new date/time possibilities, creating a GUI for setting up new scheduler instances, etc) but never got around to implementing them.

The existing tool is available under the terms of the GPL if anyone wants to play with it.

I has a boring train trip, and I wanted one of these of my own.

Command line python script here: http://caelyx.net/howto/code/scheduler.py

To use just download it, dump it somewhere (in your $PATH) is good, make it executable (“chmod a+x scheduler.py”), and run it from the terminal. Running it without arguments gives you the next 21 days. You can also specify the number of days as the first argument, and your name as the second. So, if your name is Merlin, and you want to give a 14 day calendar, run it as:

./scheduler.py 14 Merlin

Bug reports and suggestions welcome: projects _ at _ caelyx.net