Re: [school-discuss] Open Source Calendaring products

[Derek Dresser <Derek.Dresser@gouldacademy.org>]

Quoting "Stewart M. Ives" <ivessm@softecusa.com>:

> Here is a link to take a look at.  I am thinking on putting this in to 
> replace our WebCal package.
> 
> http://kronophobia.sourceforge.net/index.php
> 
> I have just taken a quick look at this but I especially like the linking to 
> mapquest for directions to events as well as the email follow up feature.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> stew

Another possibility is Kronolith

http://www.horde.org/kronolith/

it is one of the horde projects.  It is build on the same framework as IMP
webmail.  The CVS version supports shared calendars, etc.  There are a bunch of
other integrated projects at various levels of development.

-Derek

> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Doug Pratt <doug@pratt.name>
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> Sent: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:25:09 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [school-discuss] Open Source Calendaring products
> 
> > Does anyone have any experience with opensource calendaring
> > software for schools. We have been evaluating a number of
> > products and haven't found anything that fully satisfies our
> > needs. We are going to open LDAP so it would need to support
> > that. Here's what we have looked at to date (note: not all of
> > these are open source)
> > 
> > opengroupware -- no security for calendar users
> > webcalendar -- serious interface problems
> > suse openexchange -- has to run on suse linux, is essentially
> > a black box
> > oracle calendar -- may not work with openldap, expensive
> > samsung contact -- doesn't seem to integrate with ldap for
> > authentication
> > calcium -- lacks group scheduling functionality
> > scalix -- still evaluating
> > meetingmaker -- issues with ldap support, support on newer
> > versions of linux
> > phpGroupware/eGroupware -- calendar piece is just a modified
> > version of webcalendar
> > phProjekt -- weak calendar functionality
> > "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." William Gibson
> ------- End of Original Message -------
> 
> 
> 


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