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."

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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.

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/

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!