Hello again!

In my last post, I talked about starting off my open-source journey with KDE's Kalendar - specifically, adding support for calendar invitations within Kalendar. Three weeks in, here are some updates on the project:

• Calendar now has support for Free/Busy information retrieval and publishing.

• Additionally, you can configure the number of days of info to publish (or email to select contacts), and whether to upload it automatically and at what intervals.

• Note that Kalendar does not yet allow you to make use of others' Free/Busy information while scheduling a meeting - more on that in the coming weeks!

Now, what is free/busy information, and why should you care? Essentially, it's a little database keeping track of the time slots for which your calendar is marked free or busy. This information (should you choose to share it), which does not include any details about why any slots are busy, can help meeting organizers keep track of when participants are available, and thus when a meeting might be scheduled. If you use Kalendar, meeting management should get a lot more doable from within the app once this is fully implemented :)

Oh and, here's a quick look at what the changes look like:

Stay tuned to this blog for more updates!