Re: shared calendars in linux?

Ken Brush wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 14:10, Robby Russell wrote:
> 
>>We're using evolution at work and would like to share our calendars
>>together.
>>
>>The best method that I have been able to produce it having our own
>>evolutions have their calendars..and syncing the calendar file for
>>evolution to a server and using phpicalendar to combine them all. Then I
>>am able in evolution to view a web calendar (basically looks at a .ics
>>file on a webserver) and I can display them all together in evolution.
>>It's not the most elegant way to do this, but it works.
>>
>>Does anyone have any experience and suggestions to methods of handling
>>shared calendars without any commercial products or needing to use a
>>web-based interface? We're using evolution because we can sync to our
>>palm pilots nicely and don't mind phpicalendar but would like to do it a
>>bit more efficiently.
>>
> 
> 
> I don't know of any. But, there is hope :)
> You could setup an imap folder as your Calendar folder (standardize it to be 
> "calendar" or something).
> 
> Then have a process that updates a shared calendar web app with drop down 
> boxes.  If you have your watcher process just check for size differences 
> every once in a while on your imap server (or if it was hooked in somehow) 
> that would be ideal. 
> 
> I wrote a simple ical_parser in perl (avail: http://www.cgi101.com/~ken/) if 
> you want a good starting point for the web app...
> 
> I'll leave all the other implementation details to the imagination of the poor 
> sap implementing this.
> 
> -Ken
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We implemented ical on Plone w/ PloneiCalendar.  It is pretty slick with 
Mozilla Calendar.  I don't know about the evo stuff.

js

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