[dev] Google Summer of Code - Employee Scheduler

[Han Chang]

Greetings all, I'm a student at Boston University assisting a staff
member with developing an employee scheduling program. I'm curious
about two things - whether anyone would be interested in such an
addition to Horde and whether that's still legitimate for a Google
Summer of Code submission.

Here's a quick description if you're interested:

Sedule is an addition to Horde designed to offer multi-departmental
employee scheduling services.
Sedule's realtime, intuitive, and easy to use interface for scheduling will
save time and increase communication among employees and administrators.
Sedule features variable levels of control over scheduling and shift
management, allowing repetitive scheduling tasks to be planned out in
advance and automated.
Sedule differs from Hermes by focusing on the scheduling of entire
employee staff groups. It is not a time tracker but an actual schedule
editor/builder tool. It is to feature drag and drop scheduling of work
shifts (events), a configurable time scale (i.e. one-hour/half-hour/fifteen
minute intervals), multi-departmental support (allowing an employee to
see schedules for all departments that s/he works for simultaneously),
availability listings with preferred hours and email notifications, and
comprehensive schedule summaries. Sedule will supply managers with the ability
to preset holidays for an entire year and have schedules automatically update
on a weekly rotation. Employees can file requests for schedule changes from
within the application. Through templates, various reports and timesheet
export options will be available.