[ILUG] calendaring...

[Rick Moen]

Quoting kevin lyda (kevin+dated+1109000411.c84380 at ie.suberic.net):

> ok, so it would be nice to have a calendar that we could all share
> within our company.  i can see other uses as well.
> 
> first though, a nice little rant about calendaring that at the end
> announces hula, which is a calendaring, email, address book, anti-virus,
> blah, blah, balh thingy (uh, no).
> 
>     http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/444651.html

I love that piece.

> so.  i hunted around and read about ical.  it's a (gasp) standard for
> calendars and how to share them.

Well, technically iCAL is just a file format.  You need something else
to distribute them and to share them.

For limited purposes (Web-displaying multiple overlapped iCAL files),
I've found PHP iCalendar to be pretty good.  My wife and I maintain
our various iCAL files on other boxen -- she using Apple iCal on OSX, me
using Mozilla Calendar on Linux -- and we WebDAV or scp them up to a
place on my Web server where PHP iCalendar then makes them available.

Things like free/busy negotiation and lots of other desirable scheduling
features aren't provided for, but it's half a loaf.

> has anyone here used ical in a mixed platform environment?  linux and
> windows specifically, but it might be nice to help other folks.

Well, our mixed enviroment is multiple Unix implmentations.  What else
is there?  ;->

Stuff about Linux scheduling software:
"Scheduling" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Apps/