[chandler-users] Tentative? (was Intelligent Event Scheduling)

[Katie Capps Parlante]

FWIW, I believe we've seen "Tentative" in use by people who look like 
our target users "Apex" and "Assistant". "Apex" is our term for a person 
at the head of a small organization (CEO, Director, etc.) who often has 
an assistant who helps manage a calendar.

Two current pairs of Apex/Assistant "dogfooders" are Mitch and his 
assistant Esther, and Freada and her assistant Greg. (Freada's 
organizations share office space with us here at OSAF world 
headquarters.) Esther explained to me that she uses "Tentative" for 
travel that is not yet confirmed, and that Greg uses "Tentative" to hold 
time on Freada's calendar before events are "Confirmed".

It would be interesting of course to hear from others who use "Tentative".

For the curious, more information about our target users here:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/PreviewTargetUserDescriptions

Cheers,
Katie

Jeffrey Harris wrote:
> Like most calendar software, we've got a Tentative status for events,
> rendered slightly different from confirmed events.  But I'll confess
> I've never seen anyone use this status, so while I like the concept I
> think Tentative has so many attendant social factors and it encompasses
> such a broad swath of the availability spectrum that it's not actually
> very useful.