Frances Bell

I am sure you have checked out this http://docs.moodle.org/en/Calendar.
I have had problems with events and I always check
level
date (obviously needs to be in future to show)

It sounds as if, it's rejecting your event as invalid for some reason.

Thanks Martin, that is pretty inspirational.

So non-developers like me could answer questions by linking to docs, and extending/ improving documentation as appropriate.

I enjoyed the link to Spolsky, his ideas are great, here is a lovely KathySierra post, with tips on sketchesand ‘rough’ mockups. In this chapter, Spolsky also talked about ‘imaginary users’ and I wondered if a gallery of these might be useful for developers – we could come up with an interesting range in the Lounge I am sure.

I take you point in the last sentence that each of us should get on with doing what we can before asking others to do something for us, butI feel sure that there must be some dialogue here that can be useful.

That is what I thought John - what I would call user documentation, Moodle docs +

I am struggling to understand this exchange. Can you and John enlighten me?
I understood John to mean user documentation but do you mean system documentation?

On the CABWEB project we provide 'template' courses with accompanying demos ( one of the researchers created imaginary students and constructed forums based on 'real' interactions). Our challenge was that tutors who may never have met, and never before used Moodle were to set up and run short-term online collaborations for their students. We had no developer resource and wanted to be sustainable so detailed customisation was beyond us. Our test of configuration was - Will it survive to the next version of Moodle? That's why I find the discussion about some people's (me included) reluctance to move to 1.7/1.8 very interesting.
There was another discussion about use of demos that explored some of these ideas, see here.