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6 January, 2009
Some day we'll all calendar this way
We use email and web pages, blogs and instant messenger regularly to stay in touch. Still we don't have a solid shared calendar system.
I've been watching the Open Source Applications Foundation eagerly for years now, as they develop an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Exchange.
Groups need to share calendars, so they can see where people are, when the important meetings are, when their associates are available. After years of philanthropic bootstrapping, an early beta of an open-source alternative was released!
It's called Chandler; here's a link to a free Windows/OSX/Linux download. You might try running it if you don't have any other calendar program on your computer!
To use Chandler for group calendaring, you need to be running Cosmo which is only on version 0.2.6 which is why I haven't emailed Marientina suggesting we use it for the IMD. It's probably just too early!
But some day, probably shortly after I graduate, the Division will be able to use something cross-platform and free, like this, to organize events, concerts and meetings. Yee hah!
Posted by justin at January 13, 2006 1:09 PM
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I have tested various of these that are all in beta, etc. So far nothing is robust enough to do resource and event scheduling together. There are lots of non-free resource and calendaring software but I can't afford them. I am beta testing something similar...As you remember, we have been trying to do this for awhile and since I wasn't happy with anything, I threw my money at Mihai to write the simple room calendar we have now, soon to be upgraded.
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at January 13, 2006 2:04 PM
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