[SlugLUG] organizer/calender program

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Eric Carter (Ecnassianer at greenstorm.net):

> Zimbra
> (http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_zimbra_collaboration_suite_on_ubuntu)
> is an open source version of an enterprise scale calendaring system,
> total overkill for a single user, but the non-free version is robust
> and solid. Installation is non-trivial, but it'll probably do what you
> want... whatever that is...

Zimbra's "open source" version isn't genuine open source, but rather MPL
1.1 + a proprietary-licensed appendix, masquerading as open source.
(That way, they get free publicity plus patches contributed from
community coders who mistakenly think they're assisting an open source 
project.)

Covered at: 
http://linuxgazette.net/134/moen.html
http://linuxgazette.net/135/misc/lg/talkback_134_moen_html.html

(ASP companies have a genuine licensing problem, but crippling
third-party commercial reuse isn't the right way to solve it.)

> Sunbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/) is
> Mozilla's calendar, it does most of what I want, and as Rohan said,
> development is a bit slow, but as long as you're not trying to do
> something crazy, it's a clear choice.

Yeah, it's the best iCAL-file editor I've found on Linux so far.
(Entry "Scheduling" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Apps/ has a "clients" 
section that includes Sunbird.)

I found a pretty nice viewer for (multiple) iCAL files: PHP ICalendar.
You can see a test deployment here:  http://linuxmafia.com/calendar/

Notice that you can select any of several "views", and can view either a
single iCAL file from the picklist, or all of them overlaid, each one's
events in a distinctive colour.

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