Comments on: Central Agile Calendar?

By: Mark Levison

Mark Levison — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:24:24 +0000

Yves – thanks for the comment. I appreciate the value of the calendar, but 27 people writing to it isn’t alot. My goal was to leverage InfoQ size and the fact it gets outside of the regular Agile Community (i.e. you, me, Rachel, JB, …). However the idea never got the traction I wanted and I haven’t chased it any further.

Cheers
Mark

By: YvesHanoulle

YvesHanoulle — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:54:03 +0000

I seem to have missed this post.
I’m not sure what you mean with has not taken of.
On my agenda, I have 27 people adding events all around the world.
I have no idea how many people are looking or using the calendar (can I do that with google?)

I di dnot know about the infoQ one when I created the calendar (or forgot). Later I was aware of this one.
Yes it would be great to have one place.

I prefer this kind of calendar’s over the one from the AA as it integrates with my normal calender.
As far as I know, I can’t do this with the one from AA.
is this correct?

By: Daniel Wildt

Daniel Wildt — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Can't we use Agile Alliance website? http://agilealliance.org/events

By: Phil Green

Phil Green — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a good idea. Trick will be how to get it to “take off”. As you point out several others haven’t. The usefulness will be proportional.

By: abby, the hacker chick blog

abby, the hacker chick blog — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I would LOVE something like this. I agree on non-profit only except… I’d actually like to see agile conferences (non-profit or for-profit) as well if that were possible – say, local events in my geographic area plus national conferences in my country.

I would not think to look on InfoQ, but would on Agile Alliance’s site.

I’d be willing to help moderate it.

By: Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I also thought the Agile Alliance kept events up to date, but of course, organizers have to go add the event there, maybe not everyone knows to do that. But what you describe sounds way better, I’d sure use it.

By: Mark Levison

Mark Levison — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel – I think that Agile Alliance calendar works only for people who already know its there. If I google Agile Calendar – there is an InfoQ news item from two years ago mentioning Deb’s upcoming.com group and then this post. The Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance etc don’t even on the page. At least InfoQ is high traffic enough to find people who didn’t know there was a calendar in the first place.

I’m open to any alternative that will get the support of the community.

By: Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t see any reason not to have an InfoQ calendar. If people want to use the AA calendar too, then great, can’t hurt to have info in 2 places IMO. (I wouldn’t feel the same way about code, of course).

By: Rachel Davies

Rachel Davies — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Mark, People still seem to be using the Agile Events (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2228/) which Deb setup. Any member on the Agile Alliance website can add an event to http://agilealliance.org/events and it's already moderated. Agile Alliance website is being revamped to offer even more accessible event calendars. Talk to Phil Brock MD of Agile Alliance about when this will be launched. best regards, Rachel Davies

By: J. B. Rainsberger

J. B. Rainsberger — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I was going to write what Rachel wrote, so +1 to her.