Re: [school-discuss] Open Source Calendaring products

[Dirk Schouten <schoutdi@knoware.nl>]

At 08:25 19-7-04 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
>
Hi
For what it's worth, try
http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net
http://sourcefore.net/projects/siteatschool
Calendars and agenda's
HTH
DIrk