[Building Sakai] Google Calendar Integration

[Savitha Prakash]

Thanks Will. We will keep you posted.

- Savitha

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM, William Karavites
<willkara at oit.rutgers.edu>wrote:

> Rutgers is definitely interested in trying to get Google Calendar Integration,
> so please keep me updated in the work you do and if you need any help.
>
> Our wish is to be able to have a calendar on Sakai be reflected to a
> calendar on GoogleApps since most students now-a-days use Google.
>
> -Will
>
> ------------------------------------
> William Karavites
> Application Programmer
> OIT/OIRT- Rutgers University
> Office: 732-445-8726
> Cell: 732-822-9405
> willkara at rutgers.edu
> ------------------------------------
>
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> *From: *"Savitha Prakash" <savithap at umich.edu>
> *To: *"sakai-dev" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:17:57 PM
> *Subject: *[Building Sakai] Google Calendar Integration
>
>
> 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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*Savitha Prakash  *
Application Analyst
ITS Teaching & Learning
University of Michigan
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