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title: Calendar-driven community building

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# Calendar-driven community building

What are the minimum components needed for such a calendar?

- The ‘classical’ calendar stuff: dates and hours, event subjects, invites, rsvp, description field
- It should be possible to share publicly or for a team
- Team members or even the audience at large should be able to add events, to react on events. Moderation tools would probably come in handy.
- It should be easy for users to "book" an event in their personal calendar. 
- Automated features: for example, sending invites on a regular basis to group members
- It should be embeddable, like on a landing page or also on individual sites
- How would we combine the calendar with the rest of the tool set (Trello, Discourse, wiki pages, mindmaps, Zoom, social bookmarks like Diigo or streams such as hypothes.is comments and annotations)?

We could use **a dashboard** such as Netvibes. RSS-feeds and clickable images of various components would be readily visible for the audience and easy to access.

Alternatively, one can create a dashboard using the toolbar. An interesting suggestion to Firefox would be to make it possible to create more than one starting window. Also we could write a script which one could call in order to customize the tab-organization of a browser. 
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## Further steps and content

It would be interesting to **explore this further**. We could make a mock-up of a dashboard with all the above-mentioned components, eventually using Netvibes for that (later on we could build something ourselves). We would make a mock-up and try to use it, applying it on a discussion about the features of durable virtual communities. The [Open Collaboration Encyclopedia](http://www.lulu.com/shop/the-people/the-open-collaboration-encyclopedia/ebook/product-6188949.html) could be interesting in this context (it’s from 2008 so we could add quite some stuff).

