Use Your Mac to Share iCal Calendars

mcwetboy writes "Calendar publishing with iCal requires a .Mac membership or a WebDAV server. Most ISPs and hosting companies don't offer WebDAV -- or at least mine don't -- but you can run WebDAV under Apache on your Mac, and publish calendars and share them among a local network or among multiple users of a single computer. Already two different tutorials explaining how to do this have appeared on the Web: this one at Mac OS X Hints and this one courtesy of Shawn Wall. I'm sure Slashdot readers could offer even more suggestions." I set up mod_dav for the first time within an hour of downloading iCal the other day, with help from this article. Now, if only iCal weren't really slow and buggy ...

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Mozilla Calendar supports iCalendar/WebDAV also

[lcarstensen]

I'm suprised no one mentioned the Mozilla Calendar project's announcement and roadmap this week. This was posted to netscape.public.mozilla.calendar on news.mozilla.org.

Hello everyone!

Well, its been a long time coming, but I think that the calendar is finally at a release that I consider to be relatively stable, and that performs well. The XPI that is available right now fixes many selection problems, reads in Apple's iCal files from http://www.apple.com/ical/library/ and allows users to publish their events back to a webDAV enabled server. I'm calling this release 0.8.

What this means:
The 0.8 XPI will remain on the website until we release 0.9. We will continue to make XPIs available as they need to be (daily, weekly, whatever) but they may be more unstable than the 0.8 release.

At the same time, we will work towards putting the calendar into the Mozilla default builds. Build issues are being resolved now, and we should be ready to go soon. I imagine we'll see calendar in Mozilla by their 1.5 release (I hope, and assuming all goes well).

The 0.9 Mozilla calendar release will coincide with turning the calendar on by default in nightly builds.

The 1.0 calendar release will hopefully coicide with the 1.5 release of Mozilla, at which point our numbering system will jump up and match theirs.

Hopefully soon we'll have the target milestones in bugzilla. We will start to prioritize the bugs and see which bugs must be fixed for 0.9 and 1.0, and which ones can wait.

Thanks. The latest XPIs are linked off the website. The 0.8 XPIs are available at:
http://www.oeone.com/files/calendar08_linux.x pi
http://www.oeone.com/files/calendar08_windows. xpi

Mike

Mike Potter
Software Developer, OEone Corp.
Mozilla Calendar Project
http://www.oeone.com