What is the Best Calendar?

An anonymous reader writes "In the flurry of AJAX applications being put to market, Google's new calendar has been getting quite a bit of attention. But being drowned out in this media blitz is Kiko, a startup from Paul Graham's Y Combinator program, along with spongecell, Trumba, Yahoo! calendar, and 30boxes. Which do you prefer?" Update: 04/16 14:55 GMT by Z : YCombinator link fixed.

WebCalendar

[Masa]

http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] It's stable and it does everything a web calendar should do.

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Re:Event calender for a small community

[Anonymous Coward]

Take a look at this:

http://www.skybuilders.com/timelines/ [skybuilders.com]

They will host your calendar and integrate into
their personal worldview of the way calendars
should work.

Re:None do what is required to displace Exchange.

[Brice21]

There is an alternative to Exchange, actually it is already used by 350.000 members in europe and accessilbe in the USA on http://www.office.com/ [office.com]. Developped since 1998 in Belgium this web application integrate webmail (with filters, fax/SMS integration), group calendaring (with killing features like display common available time slot in a group, full inviting system with response tracking, iCal export, SMS reminders, ...), document sharing (with webDAV access), address book (with PDF printing, group sharing of contact, vCard export, ...), todos, wikis, notes, chat, forum. Web interface, Pocket PC web interface, WAP interface, ... See http://www.contactoffice.com/ [contactoffice.com] for more information. ContactOffice runs as an ASP with both free (limited) and subscription model (several plans). Jut try it ;-)

Re:Event calender for a small community

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out Connect Daily.

http://www.mhsoftware.com/ [mhsoftware.com]

You can install the software on your own server or sign up for the hosted version.

Re:Integration

[ciroknight]

If you have a Gmail account, go into your Calendar (if you have it), and under the "Calendars" box, you should see a link that says "Other Calendars +". Click it. You now should have the option of adding Public Calendars, Friends Calendars/events, Holiday Calendars, etc, right in front of you, with the same ease of use as Gmail.

Oh, and if you're an iCal user (or for that matter, use iCalendar as a format either with any of the Mozilla Calendaring project components, or anything compatible), you can upload/migrate/do everything you should be expected to be able to do with different calendaring apps sharing a standard. (And yes, that DOES include adding Friend's Public Calendars/Events through whitelisting by Email address).

Re:None do what is required to displace Exchange.

[stompro]

Please take a look at www.scalix.com [scalix.com]. It can fully replace exchange, it comes with a outlook connector, an evolution connector, and a pretty decent ajax web interface. The community edition supports unlimited email only users, and 25 full groupware users. The small business edition is under $1000. I have been playing with it for a week or two and it seems pretty nice. The small business edition can integrate with AD, so it seems like it is an answer to keeping Exchange out of the work place. Anyone else have any opinions about scalix?

Re:Discretion

[Doc Ruby]

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Pathetic TrollMod is a SlashStalker. Surely some fool who couldn't keep up after posting something stupid in some unrelated thread, now anonymously suppressing my posts. How sad.

Gmail integration

[jdbartlett]

Gmail does not integration (or I haven't figure out how to switch it on).

I may be able to help you here! According to Gogle [google.com]:

Gmail Integration
Gmail now recognizes when messages mention events, and you can add those events to your calendar with just a couple of clicks

More here [google.com]:

Gmail integration
Gmail now recognizes when messages mention events, so when you get emailed about an event, you can add it to Google Calendar with just a couple clicks. Look for the Google Calendar links on the right side of your Gmail window.

It'd be neat if iCal/Apple Mail had a feature like Gcal's Gmail integration.

Re:None do what is required to displace Exchange.

[aisaac]

What about Chandler [osafoundation.org]? It seems largely to meet your criteria. It is multplatform. It includes individual and workgroup calendars that can be shared across platforms. It includes overlayed multiple calendars (crucial in my view, and poorly handled by Exchange) and manages a single event across calendars.

There is also Scooby [osafoundation.org] for sharing Chandler calendar information with others. But PDA synching is not yet available.

Re:I want a calendar with no boxes

[moochfish]

See Google Calendar's Agenda view.

Re:I want a calendar with no boxes

[Sarbandia]

Have you tried kiko's upcoming view? It's exactly what you're asking for. As a Kiko developer, I made sure that we had a list.

Re:Integration

[krycheq]

I've had great luck with integrated calendaring using Kontact/Kmail/KCalendar... I receive invites from Lotus Notes users and Exchange users (outlook email client) and am able to click accept/decline buttons built into the invites email messages. Kontact manages to interprit the iCal stuff as an invite and apparently adds these clickable links to the email and then returns a reply to the meeting requestor as well as adds it to my calendar.

I then sync my Treo to it using KPilot and all is included... even meeting notes, location info, recurrance, and alerts.

Occasionally I get a time-zone mistake, or it fails to add the meeting with an event alarm, but considering that I don't have to use the cruddy Lotus or Exchange clients I will gladly live with these minor annoyances.

Re:Gmail integration

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you forgot to include the full url for your link...

Re:None do what is required to displace Exchange.

[DieBase99]

Outlook Connector is currently under development by a friend of mine... He recently got some corporation sponsorship so hopefully it will be completed soon...
BUT IT'S PURPOSE IS TO EXACTLY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.

It connects into Outlook (via the Mapi protocol) and allows you to bypass an exchange server and instead use an open source linux solution. it is already in beta on sourceforge.net...

SO IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO HELP... I AM SURE MY FRIEND WOULD APPRECIATE IT!!!

Re:iCal

[Assembler]

ical is a file format. It an open format for sharing calendaring data defined in RFCs 2445-2447. It was originally created with Microsoft's help. Tons of programs (web & standalone) support it, except ironically Outlook.

Re:None do what is required to displace Exchange.

[AaronLawrence]

Uhm, except of course for Lotus Notes, Exchange's number 1 competitor in the enterprise.

Admittedly, there is plenty to dislike about it, but Notes has been doing integrated, multi-user calendar+mail for years.