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Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar
Mike Potter writes: "According to an article at Mozillazine.org, Mozilla.org will be releasing an open source calendar. "Thanks to an extremely generous offer of code from OEone Corporation, the new calendar project will have a significant codebase to start from. OEone make Penzilla, an operating environment for internet devices based on Linux and Mozilla. ... For more information on, and a technical description of Penzilla Calendar, see OEone's website." I think we'll be seeing a lot more applications built with Mozilla, now that its stable." Mundane as it may sound, with tabs in place (and behaving more sanely), a good calendar is probably my most-wished-for Mozilla feature. The screenshots certainly bode well for this one.
The project is a bit far fro my immediate scope - but is teh system compatible with non-gregorian calendar systems? I know most of peopel from live the Gregorian way, but there are a few of us that use something different - like the 13-moon calendar that the planet acutally functions on - not some arbitrary separations of nomenclature.
13 moon positions and 20 sun positions over 13 moon cycles that are each 28 days in length. Which also happens to be the cycle which most females who are 'regular' have their menstruation periods by. This was the calendar system of the Mayans and happens to be the only system which acurately measures the procession of the Equinoxes - which has a much larger periodicity than most people think about....
-shpoffo
Most, if not all of them suck. Here are a few quick things I've found:
Many are based on things like php and zope, requireing both a webserver and application server software. A number of them require mysql or other database software. Many are entirely web based (from my experience limits usability for calendar software), a few others are only commandline. And because we are talking about freshmeat, I would bet a large portion of that 131 projects are still in an early stage of developement and simply not usable.
Only 10 have a popularity rating above 0.00%
Only 7 have a viability rating above 0.00%
Mozilla is/will be both stable and platform independant. It will not require a database back end. It also probably will not require you to view your calendar in simple html.
However this means, that an Palm conduit for pilot-link to synchronize the calendar and the address book of Mozilla would be essential.
Anyway, an conduit for the Mozilla address book would be great to have now. Does anyone know if there are plans to provide such an conduit?
Umm... That's because Emacs doesn't do any one of those things as well as stand alone programs written for that purpose.
Mozilla on the other hand is:
1. A cross platform framework.
2. A browser application written on TOP of that framework.
Composer is an editor written on top of the framework
Messenger is a mailer written on top of the framework
Chatzilla is an IRC app written on top of the framework
This Calendaring is another app written on top of the framework.
You don't want one? then don't build it (or don't install it)
Each of these apps is a seperate beasie, that can run alone (without the others). Each is intended to do one thing, and do it well (Browsing, Web Editing, Mail, and PIM). But, in the unix style of things - they all talk to each other very effectivly. This is useful, as the apps working together creates a package that is more then the sum of the parts.
Mozilla is my favorite browser, Messanger is my favorite Mailer. I can take or leave the current incarnation of Composer.
As other apps start working well in the Mozilla environment, I will pick and choose those which I choose to use - but the fact they all work well together makes the suite more effective.
Don't front on people's ability to try and work on tools that they want. Mozilla is gonna be released for 1.0 when it is released, and this will likely not change that date by so much as a week. I want (as many people) a suite of internet tools that function well with each other, and make my working life easier, instead of having to spend the time finding the bloody setting that lets my e-mail program launch links to my preferred browser, or dealing with any of the other annoyances of trying to get two packages to work well together that were not designed from the beginning to do so....
- The unexamined life is not worth leading -