Dolphin+Calendaring+and+Events

Goal:understand how calendaring/events can fit into the system

 * Assignment: Explore possibilities of creating a calendar for the network. Create events and broadcast them to the network. Create Events and broadcast them only to your friends. Become the Calendar and Event expert for the system.
 * Questions: How well are calendars incorporated into the system? Can calendars be exported? Imported? Can calendar data be synched with other outside facilities? Who can see events? Are events tied to the network as a whole or can they target particular groups or sets of people?**

my thoughts on calendaring in dolphin (time spent 1 hour):

admin stinks, too locked into dating mode, no templates or builders for modifying event forms or sorting or how the calendar appears in layout, i hunted through forums and found similar complaints from others, i was able to modify the email template about signing up for events but still not really geared for academic events, just not flexible for an easy transition, would take some php work and more hunting to understand how to make use of it, event documentation is nonexistent on the boonex site

if we choose dolphin, i see 3 paths for calendaring:

-get a developer who knows php who can add a custom event/calendaring mod for us -find an existing mod that works for us, i spent 10 mins looking, came up empty -dump events entirely from the social network and run them thru whatever cms we choose