Host/Travel Calendar
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This page is a Request for Enhancement. It is a draft. You are encouraged to find support for it, etc.
After the enhancement has been clearly articulated, and all affected portions of the website have been identified, you may try to persuade a developer to implement it. After implementation it will be deployed somewhere, but not necessarily to the main website.
A personal CS calendar shows the individual dates of traveling, hosting or being unavailable. A calendar system can give a Host an in-system method for keeping track of who they are to host for any given time. For travelling Couchsurfers the calendar systems shows open dates where couches are still needed and already made appointments. Redundant appointments are visible for hosts and guests and can be solved.
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Features
- Couchsurfing request that are received in our personal mail box should be in a format recognizable by google calendar or outlook.
- Autoresponse messages for CouchSurf requests
- Blackout dates
- Personal History of CouchSurfing (visible via profil for other members?)
- Connection between Host/Travel Calendar and Couch Planner
Why?
- Hosts who are active, or who live in popular destinations, may get an overwhelming number of requests. A calendar system showing they're booked, unavailable, or travelling can reduce the requests received.
- Guests have a better overview about their travel plans. The Calendar shows couchless nights and multiple couches for the same night.
Why not?
How?
Implementation
A thread at Brainstorm leads to the following format:
ICalendar is implemented/supported by a large number of products, including 30 Boxes, AiAi, Active Desktop Calendar, Apple's iCal application, Darwin Calendar Server, Contactizer and iPod, Chandler, Drupal with its event module, Citadel, eventSherpa, Facebook, FirstClass, Google Calendar, Jalios JCMS, KOrganizer, Kronolith, Lotus Notes, Lovento, Mozilla Calendar (including Mozilla Sunbird), Mulberry, Plum Canary Chirp, Novell Evolution, Nuvvo, Rainlendar, ScheduleWorld, Simple Groupware, TimeTrade's enterprise scheduling server, Upcoming.org, WebCalendar, Windows Calendar, Webical, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and Microsoft Outlook
hCalendar is a simple, open, distributed calendaring and events format, based on the iCalendar standard. It has the great advantage of being embeddable directly in HTML (and in Atom, RSS, ...). hCalendar is one of several open microformat standards, just as XFN and HCard.
Different calendars at SourceForge Calendar Listing
See also
- Tommato's point of view and technical ideas here
