In reality, I got asked (via Slack) whether I wanted to join some session, and answered, "Yes." Then I got an email (Cc'ed) from the person who had asked me to the organizer, requesting that I be added to the session. Then I got an invitation email from the organizer. The email didn't contain a calendar entry, though. It contained a link to an online form where I was supposed to register myself. So I did that and received a new email welcoming me to the session. This email also did not contain a calendar entry, but there was a link to add a calendar entry.

Clicking the link took me to a web page offering several options to add a calendar entry, among them, "Outlook." Since the company I work at uses Microsoft products for email and calendar, I chose this one. I don't know if this works on Windows. On my Linux box, it caused the browser to download an ICS file, which is OK, I guess. Except I couldn't find a way to import this file into the calendar in the web version of the Outlook client (I'm on Linux, remember? No fat client here.). Drag and drop opened a new email with the file attached.

After some searching, I remembered that I had a company iPhone with an Outlook client on it. I should be able to import the calendar entry there. Opened Outlook on the iPhone, looked for the email with the link - it wasn't there! Refresh, refresh, refresh. Nope. "Enjoy your empty inbox," it told me. While the email was laughing at me from the inbox in Thunderbird.

Maybe I could have saved the ICS file to OneDrive and opened it on my iPhone, but instead I noticed (after looking for the Nth time) that the "add to calendar" page had another option for M365. Clicking this one took me to Outlook Web and allowed me to finally add the calendar entry.

Apparently, this is what "simple" looks like nowadays.

(Yes, I could have noticed the M365 option sooner, but still - what a workflow for such a simple action!)

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