[General] Cosmo wiki page questions

[Mimi Yin]

 From perusing the Manual, my sense is that most of it's really  
material for the Admin, even though it often touches on end-user  
functionality, it's end-user functionality from an admin's perspective.

If you're running Chandler Server for a Law Office, the lawyers  
aren't constructing tickets and using the Account Browser to manage  
resources. They're using the end-user web application Dashboard and  
Calendar views.

The person reading this kind of documentation is really an admin,  
where perhaps they are their own end-user...

===
Cosmo supports two kinds of calendars:
    * "webcal", in which an entire calendar is stored on the server  
in a single resource (file). This is the format popularized by iCal  
and supported by just about every calendar client, but it is too  
limited to allow effective read-write subscriptions; usually only the  
person who published the calendar can update it.
    * CalDAV, where a calendar is represented on the server as a  
collection (folder), and each event is stored inside the calendar  
collection as a separate resource. This format makes read-write  
subscription (real calendar sharing) possible, and it makes syncing  
medium- and large-sized calendars much easier.
===

So, I'd actually advocate lumping all of this together as Chandler  
Server reading material (with all the usual caveats that not all of  
it is up to date) and not try to position the Manual as something for  
end users.

Mimi

On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Ted Leung wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> In-line...
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
>>
>>>> I found a number of different Chandler Server related guides/ 
>>>> manuals and had a few questions.
>>>>
>>>> Is this document up to date? Who is the intended audience?
>>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Documentation/ 
>>>> ChandlerServerEndUserManual
>>>
>>> The document is not up to date for Cosmo 0.7, but the intended  
>>> audience is people using Cosmo to share via CalDAV / WebDAV
>>>
>>>>
>>>> How is the EndUser Manual audience different from the Server  
>>>> Bundle Adminsitrator audience?
>>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/ServerBundleAdministrator
>>>
>>> One is for end users (although not the hub target user) the other  
>>> is for the person who downloads Cosmo and needs to configure/set  
>>> it up
>>>
>>
>> End-users for Chandler Server or end-users of Chandler Hub or  
>> both? (I think users will likely self-identify by whether they're  
>> using Chandler Hub or someone else's instance of Chandler Server.)  
>> Is this something we want to maintain / update for Preview?
>
> Primarily end users of the Server, although some of the info would  
> be useful for advanced users of the hub.   We are assuming that the  
> quickstart guide will be sufficient doc for the initial launch, but  
> I think that we are going to find that we need "fuller" end user  
> manuals/docs for both the desktoip and server/hub.   Whether we  
> actually have the bandwidth to do that is a separate question.
>
>>
>> Perhaps we should split out a separate section in the FAQ for  
>> Chandler Server Administrators...
>
> I think so.

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