[kronolith] Re: freebusyURI trouble

[pascal at linuxorable.net]

Quoting Joonas Hämäläinen <joonas.hamalainen at nettitieto.fi>:

>
>> 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

Your explanations are very clear

Thanks a lot

Pascal
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