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Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar

Posted by timothy on from the little-things-that-count dept.

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.

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  1. Open Source Calendar? by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awesome! I always thought Thursday was a stupid name. I think i'll call it Mikesday.

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  2. feature creep? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't this creeping featuritis? All I want for Christmas is Mozilla 1.0...

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  3. Re:why not give this to gnome or kde instead? by elefantstn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First of all, I think they're donating to Mozilla because it's built on Moz technology (XUL, etc.). But since it will presumably be GPL (like the rest of Mozilla), there's no reason Gnome or KDE can't use it. What does it matter if it was donated "to" them? It's GPL, Gnome/KDE are GPL, if it's good, put it in there!

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  4. Re:Calendaring server is what we need by Linux_ho · · Score: 5, Informative

    RFC 2445, 2446, 2447

    These documents describe the iCalendar protocol, supported by Outlook and Palm Desktop, if I remember correctly.

    Open source servers:
    ReefKnot - still pre-alpha, developing a Perl iCal library and server implementation, looks like it has promise for the future.

    WorldPilot - a Zope product, looks like it mostly works well, I'm looking forward to playing around with it. Anyone know of any others?

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