Many of you have seen my name associated with the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.  I’ve had many different functions for which I’ve been responsible in my possition as Associate Editor, and enjoyed all of them.  Except one that has scared me silly.

The UWN posts information on upcoming events.  That information is gathered from the events calendar on the Fridge.  But there have been some problems with gathering the information that we have learned to work around.  Most recently, one of those problems came back to bite us.  We ended up, on a Sunday morning, with 2 meetings scheduled for overlapping times in the same channel.  And we didn’t have time to coordinate with the Teams involved to straighten out the problem.  Since I’m a part of the UWN Team, I felt responsible for the problem (even if it wasn’t MY problem, directly).

This lead to my volunteering to try to keep the Fridge calendar (and the Google support calendar) updated and current.  I’ve been added to the editors of thr Fridge for just that purpose, and now I’m asking for your help.  There is information we (_I_) need to help serve you in promoting your upcoming events.  It isn’t anything really difficult to do, and would save me some time in contacting you for further information.

The information we use and need is:

• Start Date/Time/Timezone:  If it’s a world-wide meeting, then UTC.  A local meeting would be in the local timezone.
• End Date/Time/Timezone: I would presume it to be the same as above with only the time changed.
• Location: Such as #ubuntu-meeting in IRC is fine, or something similar.
• Agenda:  A link to a wiki page showing what the meeting is about, if you have one.
• Is this a regularly scheduled recurring event?  If it is, then we can set it up on the Google calendar as such, which will remind me to manually enter it in the Fridge calendar.  This can significantly reduce the possibility of overlapping scheduling, which helps everyone.

This would be the minimum information we’d need, both for the Fridge and for the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, and would help us tremendously.  Getting this information in to us is not difficult.  Go to https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and make your request  to the mailing list.  That’s all you have to do.  From there, I’ll take and enter it into the calendars.  Please help me to help you.