[Building Sakai] Google Calendar Integration

[Savitha Prakash]

We have been investigating and working towards integrating Google Calendars
with Sakai. This is especially attractive feature for University of
Michigan, since UOfM has collaboration with google, and I am sure many
other institutions will be interested in this as well.

So far this is what we have come up with:
Develop a new Sakai CLE tool for Google Calendars, which when added to a
site creates a new google calendar for the site, and auto-provisions the
site participants. All the sakai roles can be matched up to google calendar
permissions. Sakai will be using Google Calendar API v3 client libraries to
interact with Google at the back-end.

For the front-end, among the various JQuery Calendar plugin, FullCalendar
plugin seemed attractive. This is quite popular, extensively used, and has
integration with Google Calendar. However, FullCalendar supports
Google-Calendar-Api-v2, which is being depreciated by google, and it
currently does not have support for Google-Calendar-Api-v3. I have added a
ticket to fullcalendar requesting the support (
http://code.google.com/p/fullcalendar/issues/detail?id=1526&thanks=1526&ts=1346868483),
but if no support added in the near future, we may have to add and maintain
our own translation, between gc-v3 and full-calendar. Thoughts?

Have anybody tried there hands with fullcalendar and do you know of any
better alternative to it. I am also interested to hear of any similar
effort happening in the community for Google-Calendar integration with
Sakai, and any suggestions, thoughts and ideas you may have.

Thanks,
-- 
*Savitha Prakash  *
Application Analyst
ITS Teaching & Learning
University of Michigan
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