[kronolith] Re: freebusyURI trouble

[Joonas Hämäläinen]

> Ok, but can you explain me what is a freebusy URL (I know free, I know 
> busy, but
> a freebusy URL is very mysterious for a French guy ) and how define 
> such a thing
> ?

I saw you got already one explanation about what this is, but I give 
mine (I didn't find other so clear, at least it wouldn't have helped me :)

freebusyURL is, as name say, URL which contains freebusy information. I 
suppose you weren't quite sure what this 'freebusy' is, so let me try to 
explain. It is information wether you are free, or are you busy, at a 
certain time.

Lets say you have meeting at Monday morning at 10:30 to 12:00. You add 
it to your calendar, and mark that you are there at that time. Then 
someone, like your co-worker or boss wants to make a meeting at Monday 
morning 11:00 and going on from that. He adds attendees in his event 
from contacts, and all have freebusyURL defined there. When he adds you, 
he sees that you are busy from 10:30 to 12:00 at that day.

So he can change time of meeting so it suits also you, or then he 
decides you can arrive late or whatever he wishes then. Point in this 
freebusyURL is that you can see if someone is already having something 
at specific time or not. If I recall right, freebusyURL supports three 
states: free, planned and busy.

It isn't perfect system yet (like you do not know in which event user is 
busy, and I find it very confusing) but if development of it keeps 
going, it can be really good and valuable part of calendar/contacts.

I hope I didn't bore you, and this explanation gave you insight what 
freebusyURL actually is.

-Joonas