ir0b0t's Journal: Open Source Law Office: Considering Calendars

Evolution does not appear to share calendars the same way that Amicus Attorney shares a calendar. Amicus Attorney has one calendar that can be read and written to over a local area network. Since everyone on the network is required to use a Micro$oft operating system, there's no compatibility issues.

Our goal is to banish M$ from our office forever and ever. We want to be liberated from M$. We need a kludge for this calendar sharing problem to do it.

Here's the problem:

Evolution shares its calendar by publishing it on a server. This approach won't do the trick. The calendar we end up using can be served, but it also needs to be shared.

That way if the lawyer's assistant needs to schedule the lawyer for an appointment, the lawyer's calendar can be altered to reflect that s/he is no longer available during that time period, for example, to attend a court hearing.

This is a crucial feature of all law office calendars --- even calendars made out of paper. At least two sets of eyes need to be triple-checking the dates. The left hand must know what the right hand is doing, or disaster will result.

I'm wondering now about an even more low-tech solution. What about using something like emacs to create a shared calendar file that can be read and written to over a Samba network by a Windows XP machine?

Hmmmm . . .