Elgg+Calendaring

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

 * **Assignme****nt: 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?****

summary: generally kicks butt over dolphin, does the basics, missing some more advanced features

notes:

-private, entire user community, and public permissioning is good, group permissioning works but could be better implemented (you can only do a group event from a particular group's page, access drop down doesn't shows available groups as an option on the main event calendar when you add an event - seems fixable)

-easy to add yourself to events, edit events, remove yourself, appears you could potentially make events pretty with styling, html, etc... but i didn't try

-standard event form fields are not objectionable (as in dolphin)

-calendar widget loads easily onto dashboard showing only your events, would be nice if that had its own rss, but doesn't

-nice event page feature shows who has joined an event

-entire calendar has an rss hook but not working right now (openDD also available, also not functional), but theoretically calendar info can get moved out of elgg, but syncing is probably asking too much

-importing looks possible thru the GUID tool, where you could potentially batch import a bunch of properly formatted events, but again, i don't see a way to bring other events in and sync