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Google+ Hangout scheduling just got simple

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I play in coughDungeons & Dragonscough games in Hangouts and this looks tremendously useful.

The participants are usually spread out across the world... the option to view Hangout times in in terms of local time would be _excellent_.

Secondarily, the ability for the organizer to review the attendees' local times for each proposed timeslot would be great too. It'd be nice to know that your timeslot wouldn't be 3am for half the attendees.

Great idea. Added to whiteboard. It's been a Looong time since I played D&D - great memories. reply

Cheers!

(I only got back into it recently after a long break since I was 14 or so. I'm not keen on the new products but the 80s era stuff is retro-excellent.)

Another good feature would be to make the event open so people could enter their details to register. At the moment, the organiser still has to use another channel to ask "who's in?" and collect e-mail addresses.

Slick! How about a "quick create" option, like in Google Calendar? That's how I create all my Calendar entries, though your average user is probably more adept at mousing than free text entry :P

Great idea, do you already have ical integration? Public hangout category, language or location search (or combination)?

ical on the whiteboard. Will add others suggestions.

Feedback would be great.

This looks pretty slick! Just one thing that bit me: You have the dates and times (and the cutoff date and time) already filled out with defaults, but I can't just accept them. If if try, it says they are invalid, so I have to go back and select the exact same dates and times from the menu. I think it would be better if you left them blank, or pre-populate with text that can't be confused for a valid entry. e.g. "choose a date" instead of "Friday, December 2, 2011"

edit: hm, it actually says "Friday, November 11, 2011" but apparently I didn't read past the word "Friday". Still kind of confusing :)

Good point. We caught that UI issue, but somehow that crept back in.

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