Thank you from me as well to @jarofgreen and @liekeploeger for the feedbacks. It reminded me to reconnect to the makers of http://techup.ch (a startup project with similarities to what you shared, James), and make sure that before we start to make any “improvements”, we talk to our community about their needs. Your points are good raw material and conversation starters. In similar vein to my response regarding Wordpress, I am in favor of a balanced diversity of platforms and open standards, and convinced that the choices we make have an impact to how people perceive openness of all sorts and sources through leading institutions like the OKI network.
And speaking of calendars, these questions are relevant to many of the themes of our conference in Berne next week:
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