I came back here as I thought it’s about including a calendar view. Now reading through the topic again it has several interesting ideas and started off talking about activities across groups.
Staying within one group, I’d like to lift the idea of having a calendar view. I think of this as an alternative way to display activities. Now we have a long list with the detailed view of each activity. Could also think about a shortened version, more like a list. Or the named calendar, which is a more visual representation. I’ve integrated my activities in my calendar using Thunderbird (see below), that’s how I think about it.
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I came across this quasar extension: https://qcalendar.netlify.app/ 
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I want to upvote this. Having a calendar view for the month, optionally 2-month or some number of weeks at once, would be highly useful, especially for groups where there are a number of different types of events.
My current use case:
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A parenting resources group that has different kinds of events, playdates, festivals, etc and many times it’s important to quickly view what is available on a certain day or days of the week. Having a monthly view where someone could see at a glance “Oh, there are some events next Friday which is just what we’re looking for” is highly useful and valuable.
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Having the ability to publish “public” events to an instance-wide calendar would also be useful. Going back to the parenting groups, the current plan is to have 2 or possible 3 different mini-regions with dedicated groups for each. There would be some overlap, but for some parents, depending on the event, it makes sense to travel the extra distance for something big occasionally. Having Public events populate a “global” calendar that someone could look at and see at a glance multiple activities that were posted across several groups would be game-changing and a huge help to trying to convince people to join. Right now, the fact that they have to go to each separate group (on Facebook for now) to see what events are available, all without a calendar view option (optional of course) to try to find events is a friction that could be a great feature to offer via Karrot across multiple groups. Having a “global” calendar would be a great feature and big help.
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There is also https://fullcalendar.io/ which has an official vue adapter for it, it’s been around a while and is very full featured, although some of the fanciest addons are only for the paid pro version.
I have some caution about quasar addons as one I used before didn’t really get updated (so can hold back us updating quasar, for example), it’s a bit more niche when it’s for vue/quasar specifically, whereas fullcalendar is just js, with adapters for the frameworks.
Worth evaluating them both!
I agree it would be lovely to have a calendar view! And there are a bunch of contexts in which it could be shown: per-place, group-wide, public view instance-wide, etc…
I think it only needs to be readonly too… which removes a lot of the complexities.
For reference: we are likely to submit this as a milestone within our next nlnet funding application (to NLnet; NGI Zero Commons Fund) - which is good if we get it, as it’ll definitely happen! But bad because it means we can’t really work on it until we know if we are successful or not!
