The way we control privacy is to add each Basecamp calendar’s RSS feed to each team member’s Google calendar individually, per the instructions above. We don’t share the Other Calendars publicly.

As far as the interval between updates, I’ve often wondered myself about this. Sometimes they seem to synch immediately upon changes being made in Basecamp. Sometimes, it takes more time. This would be a great question for 37 Signals.

Your instructions are very clear, thanks for the tip!

There’s one thing I’m wondering about regarding privacy/public issues. In your story on the 37signals Product Blog, you mention that you use Google Shared Calendar, so I figured "Great, I’ll be able to invite all the team members into the project calendar". This seems to be possible for calendars under "My Calendars", however, the ones that fall under "Other calendars" only allow for private or public, i.e. visible to anyone.

Now, as long as I’m only displaying the milestones and not any of the details of a project, that might be okay I guess, depending on the project.

So, which way do you set the access/sharing settings?

Oh, and another thing, do you know the interval between updates to the calendar?

Best regards,

Helgi Þór
Project Leader,
The Icelandic Autism Association