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Exploring idea of the renewal of the CEE Calendar through survey
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From 2015 to 2017 there was a joint CEE Calendar thanks to the efforts of volunteers from the CEE region. This initiative started in 2015 but it almost completely ended in 2017.
Idea of having a CEE Calendar is based on the wish to have a better overview and more information about ongoing activities and events organised by the CEE communities, user groups and chapters. Calendar should serve to both raise awareness about events in the region, and to enable learning about particular events that are being organized,
As CEE Hub wants to revive the CEE Calendar, same as we did with the CEE Newsletter, we invited all community members from the CEE Region to fill out the survey asking them questions about their usage of the calendars in their work.
The results of the survey show the following:
- Overwhelming majority of the respondents (81%) use some kind of calendar in their work:
- More than three quarters (76,2%) of the respondents use Google Calendar in their work;
- Surprisingly overwhelming majority of the respondents 81% did not know about the existence of the CEE Calendar in the past;
- Interestingly almost half of the respondents (52,4%) did not know about option of calendar in the Diff Blog run by the Wikimedia Foundation
- Lastly, most of the respondents (38,1% “yes” and 57,1% “maybe”) are probably willing to give a chance to a joint CEE Calendar in their work.
Next steps
CEE Hub will organise follow up meetings with the Communications department of the Wikimedia Foundation to explore options for using their calendar on the Diff blog in order to create a CEE joint calendar. Although we recognise the benefits of having a joint calendar we do not want to overburden communities with additional work therefore we are trying to find the easiest way for making this happen.
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