Comments on: oh calendar, where art though?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:09:44 +0000

Access to other people’s calendars also can shift power relationships quite a bit, which is why I assume the faculty/staff calendaring is kept private. E.g. The only person that has access to my calendar is my wife. For all others, I need to maintain some plausible deniablity of being booked, or else I’d never have any uninterrupted blocks of time to get anything done.

(For the record, the doctoral students don’t have meeting maker access either, which I find to be a pain, given the frequency of meetings etc that we have with faculty. )

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:56:55 +0000

Noor’s right, set a standing meeting and cancel.

The other trick: keep meeting times open in your schedule, and tell other people that this is the time you can meet. Hold court someplace and use the time for yourself if you don’t have the need to use it for others.

Exchange sucks, meetingmaker that only staff use sucks, etc.

If you hang out with the right people around SI, they may be using Google Calendar, so you can at least read/feed iCalendar events to and fro’

By: sean

sean — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:25:02 +0000

hmm — I think you might be right, and I might have been over-valuing the magic that calendaring software can work.

When I first wrote, I think I significnatly underappreciated how many more commitments — particularly family and/or part time jobs — the average SI student (including me) has in comparison to my undergrad program.

By: Noor

Noor — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:35:55 +0000

I believe most of the faculty also use MeetingMaker. Trying to find a good meeting time was always a nightmare at SI. I just learned to demand standing meetings of all of my groups at the beginning of the semester. I’m actually not sure that having Exchange would have helped us all that much. When there isn’t a common free time among four people, there just isn’t!