Client/Server Calendar Program?

Dethnyte asks: "At my office, we currently use Calendar Creator Pro, it's just not a very good or user-friendly program for multiple people entering data into a calendar. We don't want to use Outlook or anything that requires a server, or at least a server program we have to pay for. Is there anything Open Source that can help us out? We'd use Sunbird, but it still has too many bugs. We need something simple that can keep dates, multiple schedules, and still be readable when printed out."

Comments

Mozilla Calendar

[Bios_Hakr]

Is there any reason Mozilla Calendar will not work? The calendar files can be located pretty much anywhere. I have one on a small fileserver in my home that my wife and I share.

Although, in an enterprise, concurency issues might crop up.

Still, it's worth a shot.

Re:Mozilla Calendar

[warpSpeed]

Mozilla Calendar has a lot of promise (I currently use it in a client server format) but it is no where near ready for wide spread deployment. There are way too many peices that are unfinished and unpolished.

I hate to detract from it because it will be a great product when finished. For being a 0.2 release it is quite usable, but I would not inflict it on the unwahsed masses yet.

Re:Mozilla Calendar

[sameyeam]

I volunteer some time at a local charity helping out with IT stuff among other things. We've been looking for something that can do simple calender sharing, effectively, easily and cheaply...it simply doesn't exist. Mozilla's efforts so far are so full of bugs as to be completely unusable. It's such a simple app with a huge potential market. It's crying out to be exploited by someone with a little talent...but so far, everything I've found has been seriously lacking.

Evolution Calendaring

[displague]

Evolution calendaring works well, and I believe the print options are acceptable too. I haven't had the best of luck with the DAV interface to an ics calendar file, but the support is present.

Schoolbell

[tomboy17]

Schoolbell has a calendar component (schoolbell is a subset of the code for Schooltool, a school administration server being developed with $$ from Mark Shuttleworth). It could be the free-server end of what you want (you said you didn't want a server that cost anything; I assume a free one is okay).

From the webpage:

SchoolBell allows users to manage their personal calendars, group calendars and calendars for resources, e.g., rooms, projectors, etc, via a web interface, or using an iCalendar compliant client such as Mozilla calendar or iCal.

You can:

1. create users, groups and resources through web forms or bulk import (in CSV format);
2. view and edit calendars for each user, group or resource using an ICal client;
3. use the web interface to manage user and group calendars;

Once you've got your calendars in ICal format, there are a number of other tools that can help you manage them, such as evolution for users, or pcal to output calendars as postscript.

iCal

[cliffyqs]

We use iCal from brown bear software. Cheap, works well, can handle multiple calendars, each with multiple people, accessible by web browser. they are here http://www.brownbearsw.com/

Wiki

[Goo.cc]

Why not use a Wiki? I know that it is not intended for calendaring but I think that I could be useful as one.