Unable to add selection of events from CNCF calendar

[aliok]

CNCF meeting calendar is good:

• Public and transparent
• Central location

I can add the CNCF meeting calendar to my own calendar; this is also nice.

However it is not possible to add a selection of events. When I add the whole calendar, my calendar will be flooded.

To overcome this problem, I create copies of a selection of events in my own calendar.
This creates additional issues where my events get out of sync.

I find this important to reduce the cognitive load of maintainers / community members / TAG members / WG members.

Note: Let me know if there's a better place to have this issue.

[aliok]

We were discussing this issue in a TAG Contributor Strategy meeting. Although, I am not sure about the technical feasibility, what would be super nice is if we can have these:

• Calendar events tied to a mailing list
• Mailing lists send invites to new members

This is what we usually do in a Google calendar and Google groups setup in various other places. We invite the Google group as a whole in the calendar event. When someone new joins to the group, they get an invite automatically.

I see that CNCF mailing lists use https://groups.io.

There are some features listed, but I can't see this kind of feature there: https://groups.io/static/features

An alternative idea might be creating subgroups of calendars. For example, I can subscribe to a TAG Contributor Strategy calendar personally, and the events under this one could be still shown in the broader calendar.

[riaankleinhans]

I like the auto-meeting invitations proposal. (I think the K8s community is using it.)

[amye]

This should go in /foundation!

[aliok]

I don't have the permissions to transfer this issue to /foundation, so I will create a new ticket there and close this one.

[aliok]

/foundation issue: cncf/foundation#693