Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

Seth Cohn sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org
Fri Jan 19 10:17:30 EST 2007


> > There are also dedicated calendaring applications.

Indeed, here's another that seems useful and popular:

http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php

Unlike bedework (java... ugh) , webcalendar is php/sql, making it
easier to make custom changes

Overview of Features (cut and paste from the website)

    * XHTML/CSS compliance
    * Multi-user support
    * 30 supported languages: Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese-Big5,
Chinese-GB2312, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English-US, Estonian, Finnish,
French, Galician, German, Greek, Holo-Big5, Hungarian, Icelandic,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese_BR,
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh
    * Auto-detect user's language preference from browser settings
    * View calendars by day, week, month or year
    * View another user's calendar
    * View one or more users' calendar via layers on top of your own calendar
    * Add/Edit/Delete users
    * Add/Edit/Delete events
    * Repeating events including support for overriding or deleting (exceptions)
    * Configurable custom event fields
    * User-configurable preferences for colors, 12/24 time format,
Sun/Mon week start
    * Online help
    * Checks for scheduling conflicts
    * Email reminders for upcoming events
    * Email notifications for new/updated/deleted events
    * Export events to iCalendar, vCalendar or Palm
    * Import from iCalendar, vCalendar or Palm
    * Optional general access (no login required) to allow calendar to
be viewed by people without a login (useful for event calendars)
    * Users can make their calendar available publicly to anyone with
an iCalendar-compliant calendar program (such as Apple's iCal, Mozilla
Calendar or Sunbird)
    * Publishing of free/busy schedules (part of the iCalendar standard)
    * RSS support that puts a user's calendar into RSS (WebCalendar 1.1+)
    * Subscribe to "remote" calendars (hosted elsewhere on the net) in
either iCalendar or hCalendar formats (WebCalendar 1.1+)
    * User authentication: Web-based, HTTP, LDAP or NIS

(One reason I noticed this in particular was the drupal integration
http://drupal.org/project/webcal so I'll be evaling this for some
projects I'm working on anyway to see how it compares to the other
drupal calendar options)


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