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

web based

[martin]

lots of web based ones - egroupware, opengroupware, gnu/hurd have one.....

phpgroupware

[_aa_]

phpgroupware uses all free and open software. Printer friendly output.

Re:phpgroupware

[fuzzybunny]

PHPGroupware is nice, but I found PHProjekt to be a bit more stable and simpler, as well as further down the development path (I don't remember why, but I got the impression that the PHPGroupware guys couldn't figure out exactly what they were trying to accomplish.)

PHProjekt is nice, including multiple profiles, email support, Palm sync, objects, chat, bulletin board, helpdesk, file storage, and a host of other useful stuff. I have set it up for my own company as well as for a number of clients and it works a charm.

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.

Do you have to host it in-house?

[gristlebud]

Lessee-

Don't want a server, don't want to pay for it, do want to track dates and multiple schedules.

Keeping multiple calendars that can be seen by others and can show busy/free times on a per-user/resource basis is inherintly a client/server relationship. If you don't want to use Exchange or one of the other closed-source solutions, why not have someone else maintain the server for you. Here's what I use:

http://calendar.yahoo.com/

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.

Re:Just get a database solution

[samael]

Writing your own app really isn't a solution for most people, they have 5000 other things they should be doing with their time.

Obviously, whatever they use should use a database, but it's the interface and application that actually matter.

Seconded

[samael]

I use this for my personal calendar and it works very well. It's not as good for group projects, but it's not bad for free.

Typo in Link

[brianmf]

Should be: http://www.phprojekt.com/

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/

OX

[Mariani]

Open Xchange, (find it here) works marvelous, they have a live demo on their site if you'd like to check it out. It may be a little over-kill though for what you want to do with it (setting up the server is not exactly a walk in the park if you're not a systems guy). But it is free (GPL)

Rephrase the question

[duffbeer703]

We want everything, and want it for free. We could use the free tools available, but they aren't stable enough and we're too lazy to help develop the free product.

I need a free solution that does everything! Someone write one for me!

Reprhase the parent post

[Anonymous Cowtard]

All my friends know how to code, so you obviously must be lazy if you can code it yourself. How dare you even ask if there's anything else available outside your personal knowledge. Just use one of the existing, though inadequate, products if you're too lazy to code yourself (and you obviously know how to code since I do).

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.