Include Organizer Info in Event?

[ethanresnick]

Include the user who added the event to the API as the organizer in case, e.g. an attendee wants to contact them.

If there's a separate ical field for this, which i think there is, it wouldn't clutter up the body.

[AbhiAgarwal]

• I coded this in SHA: 61e3277. It doesn't work for some reason!

Some of them don't have a addedBy.

Do we want to add a default?

• I was thinking TechatNYU <hello@techatnyu.org>. Just a thought!

Also some addedBy people don't have an email.

• I don't add it if they don't have an email, but a name.
• Should I add the email to be hello@techatnyu.org?

[ethanresnick]

These are really good points, and they've gotten me thinking about the addedBy field in general.

Specifically, what are we actually trying to capture with this field that would be useful beyond the information that TeamMemberships already give us about who was, at the time of the event, on the team(s) that are hosting it?

And, depending on the answer to the above question, is addedBy the right name? Should the field be set manually or automatically? (If automatically, at what point in the process? On creating the event? On switching the event's status to public?) Etc.

I'll keep thinking about those, and I want to hear your take too! Meanwhile, while we're figuring all that out, lets just leave this issue open and we can work on other ones.

[AbhiAgarwal]

@ethanresnick I was thinking of just putting teamName@techatnyu.org in general - rather than individuals.

I agree with your points, though. I think it was created to capture who actually created this event - if we find any mistakes in it then who should we go to? Or who's responsible for putting this into the API?

I agree. We'll debate about the addBy. Right now I think it should be automatic. In the past I had problems with the addBy because it was mostly your API key that added events. Or it was people other than the team hosting it who created these events. Going forward this problem should resolve itself as the increase in usage of the intranet.