[Design] Options for Invitation workflow in 0.7

[Alec Flett]

Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>>
>> If I stamp-as-email, address, then send to invite people to an event,
>> how does inviting more people later work?  I edit the existing email and
>> hit send again?  That's really different than what I'm used to, but I
>> guess that could work.  I suppose uninviting people could work the same
>> way...
>>
>
> Think of it as Edit and Update?
I think this has both technical and user-level issues.. but I think the 
user-level issues dominate. Personally I think edit-and-update is not a 
model that makes sense for invitations. This is also why I don't think 
stamping as a way of inviting makes any sense.

When I have a party, I send out invitations - be it via e-vite, paper 
cards, or whatever. and people reply to tell me they are coming, But the 
invitation is an entity unto itself - its sometimes a physical thing but 
ultimately it is an idea, a desire for someone to attend an event. I 
don't think of that as a modification to my party, or really even a 
modification to my original invitation. An invitation is just that: 
something that invites someone to an event. Its not the event itself. An 
invitation is something you send - it isn't a collaboration between the 
inviter and the invitee. I think that looking at it like stamping makes 
it sound like "I'm having a party in which one property is your 
attendance. If this isn't the correct definition of my party, please 
modify the event."

Anyway, that's my stamping-invitation 2 cents:)

Alec

>
>> ** Probably out-of-scope for 0.7  **
>> (but I'll mention them briefly, anyway)
>>
>> - Delegation (Esther organizes and/or schedules a meeting for Mitch).
>> This is part of iTIP, SWAG: 5 days
>> - Countering a meeting invitation with an alternate time (and accepting
>> or declining counters).  Part of iTIP.    The message body for this is
>> easy, getting the UI right might be hard.  SWAG: 10 days
>
> Well ideally, this would all be worked out in the item conversation, 
> rather than all going back to the meeting organizer.
>
>> - Cancelling meetings.  Again, part of iTIP, easy, good UI isn't
>> necessary, although of course it would be nice to highlight
>> cancellations somehow, which might take more effort.  SWAG: 1 day
>> - Jabber transport for invitations (I really want to play with this,
>> maybe in my self-directed time), SWAG: Large
>> - "home time" free/busy vs. "work time".  For instance, if I go on
>> vacation for a week, I want family and friends to see a different
>> free/busy than coworkers.  I think figuring out how to do this would
>> probably be hard.
>>
>> If you've gotten this far, that means you actually read the whole
>> message.  Congratulations, and thanks. :)
>>
>> Have a nice night,
>> Jeffrey
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