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Hello, thanks for this advanced calendar, with a self-hosted option! I like the innovative features!
This is a feature request, or question if something like this is on your roadmap. What I'm looking for is flipped from normal appointment scheduling.
A volunteer team, available at individually set hours, go as pairs to one-time appointments with our customers. Customers don't care and shouldn't be able to choose who their volunteers are. Customers should instead, only be offered times when two or more volunteers are available. These visits occur over several months, sometimes a week has none, sometimes it has 3-5. Doing this manually with lists of availability and exceptions is challenging.
To complicate it a little more, some volunteers are trained to lead the visits and others can only be the second person, so for a time slot to be available, it needs at least one lead available and at least two total volunteers available (two leads is ok but not ideal).
Our volunteer team is one of about 50 that work with a non-profit. There are probably around 200 volunteers total and about 4-5 paid staff. We don't have funds to spare and I don't represent the non-profit. But my team has been the leading edge on some tech things that other teams have followed and I would be willing to personally pay something to reduce the need for a human to do this 3-way scheduling, because it's very taxing on volunteers.
In posting about my search for this, someone volunteered to do the coding. I'm concerned a one-off app will be abandoned and involves a ton of work duplicating functions and features that are already in other apps. I'd rather see if this would be seen as a desirable feature for an existing open source calendar. The need for multiple people in different roles seems common, e.g. dentist and hygienist, but in most of those cases, it's someone's paid job to do the scheduling.
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Hello, thanks for this advanced calendar, with a self-hosted option! I like the innovative features!
This is a feature request, or question if something like this is on your roadmap. What I'm looking for is flipped from normal appointment scheduling.
A volunteer team, available at individually set hours, go as pairs to one-time appointments with our customers. Customers don't care and shouldn't be able to choose who their volunteers are. Customers should instead, only be offered times when two or more volunteers are available. These visits occur over several months, sometimes a week has none, sometimes it has 3-5. Doing this manually with lists of availability and exceptions is challenging.
To complicate it a little more, some volunteers are trained to lead the visits and others can only be the second person, so for a time slot to be available, it needs at least one lead available and at least two total volunteers available (two leads is ok but not ideal).
Our volunteer team is one of about 50 that work with a non-profit. There are probably around 200 volunteers total and about 4-5 paid staff. We don't have funds to spare and I don't represent the non-profit. But my team has been the leading edge on some tech things that other teams have followed and I would be willing to personally pay something to reduce the need for a human to do this 3-way scheduling, because it's very taxing on volunteers.
In posting about my search for this, someone volunteered to do the coding. I'm concerned a one-off app will be abandoned and involves a ton of work duplicating functions and features that are already in other apps. I'd rather see if this would be seen as a desirable feature for an existing open source calendar. The need for multiple people in different roles seems common, e.g. dentist and hygienist, but in most of those cases, it's someone's paid job to do the scheduling.
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