Calendar App

We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to
handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the
built-in calendar
app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this done
successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really appreciate the
product
name.  Thanks,

Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
Adult Services Librarian
Broward County Library
North Lauderdale Branch
swilso5kent.edu
smwilsonbrowardlibrary.org
954-968-3841 ext. 235
6901 Kimberly Blvd. 
North Lauderdale, FL 33068
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I found Vcalendar to work well on our Intranet and I plan on
adapting it 
for room scheduling soon.
http://www.vcalendar.o
rg/site/

Kevin Devine
Euclid Public Library

swilso5kent.edu wrote:
> We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to
> handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the
built-in calendar
> app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this
done
> successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really
appreciate the product
> name.  Thanks,
>
> Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
> Adult Services Librarian
> Broward County Library
> North Lauderdale Branch
> swilso5kent.edu
> smwilsonbrowardlibrary.org
> 954-968-3841 ext. 235
> 6901 Kimberly Blvd. 
> North Lauderdale, FL 33068
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I'd appreciate this also.

Best regards,

Andro P. Gagné

         At 11:35 AM 6/14/06 -0400, Steve Wilson wrote:

>We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to
>handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the
built-in calendar
>app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this
done
>successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really appreciate
the product
>name.  Thanks,
>
>Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
>Adult Services Librarian
>Broward County Library


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To me there are at least 3 kinds of calendars:

-- Public events

-- Personal

-- Resource scheduling

At Michigan State we've adopted and adapted Virginia
Tech's public events
calendar, VTcal,so for with great success.  It allows you to
have both a
general calendar and many sub-calendars.  It's open source
PHP / MySQL.  MSU
has made many local mods but not yet packaged them for
SourceForge.

I don't know how well it would serve in the role of a
resource scheduling
calendar but it might be worth a try depending on your
needs.

Suggestion: define up front what your calendar will and will
not do.  Say
the word "calendar" and people expect many
different things of it.

/rich


On 6/14/06, swilso5kent.edu <swilso5kent.edu> wrote:
>
> We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to
> handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the
built-in calendar
> app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this
done
> successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really
appreciate the product
> name.  Thanks,
>
> Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
> Adult Services Librarian
> Broward County Library
> North Lauderdale Branch
> swilso5kent.edu
> smwilsonbrowardlibrary.org
> 954-968-3841 ext. 235
> 6901 Kimberly Blvd.
> North Lauderdale, FL 33068
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We are using WebCalendar v1.0.2 http://www.k5n.us/w
ebcalendar.php for
scheduling our computer labs and it works very well for us. 



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Subject: [Web4lib] Calendar App

We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to handle
room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the built-in
calendar app of a
certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this done
successfully or has a
suggestion, I'd really appreciate the product name. 
Thanks,

Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
Adult Services Librarian
Broward County Library
North Lauderdale Branch
swilso5kent.edu
smwilsonbrowardlibrary.org
954-968-3841 ext. 235
6901 Kimberly Blvd. 
North Lauderdale, FL 33068
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, swilso5kent.edu wrote:

> We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to
> handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the
built-in calendar
> app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this
done
> successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really
appreciate the product
> name.  Thanks,

Hi Steve.

We have used MRBS - http://mrbs.sourceforge.
net/ - for a few years and it 
has worked well.  HTH.

John Creech, Systems Librarian
Brooks Library, Central Washington University
400 E. University Way | Ellensburg, WA 98926
office - 509.963.1081
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We are currently, or at least have been, booking rooms with
our III OPAC and 
manually entering the dates on a WEB calendar, Corp Calendar
on Zope. See 
http://www.
library.appstate.edu/calendar/ for our page that has
links to each 
calendar.  It does not have ical or vcal built in but it
wouldn't take much 
to add it in because it is written in Python and is runningn
on Zope.

Although, there are products at http://www.schooltool.org that I especially 
like and have only tested earlier versions.  They are
constantly developing 
this tool and it has come very far.

From their site:
SchoolTool Calendar is our calendar and resource management
tool for schools.

SchoolBell is a calendar management system for small
organizations.

SchoolTool 2006 is an open source student information
system, projected for 
availability the 2006-2007 school year.



We have been looking for a calendar to use campus wide and
there is a 
comparison at http://ww
w.webmaster.appstate.edu/calendar/ .
Calendars we are looking at include SunONE, Calcium,
Exchange, Groupwise, 
Meeting Maker, School(tool,bell,tool calendar), WebCalendar,
Web Event, 
Zimbra, ActiveX, and UW Calendar.  Our preferred criteria
includes RSS/XML, 
WEB based access, Client based access, scheduling, synching,
import/export, 
permissions granularity, filters or search, subscriptions or
includes or 
layering, API/SDK customization, LDAP authentication, and
ADA validation.  
What we mainly wanted was a calendar that displayed well on
the web, is 
shareable, and customizable.


Thomas

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:35, swilso5kent.edu
wrote:
> We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar
application to
> handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the
built-in calendar
> app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this
done
> successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really
appreciate the product
> name.  Thanks,
>
> Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
> Adult Services Librarian
> Broward County Library
> North Lauderdale Branch
> swilso5kent.edu
> smwilsonbrowardlibrary.org
> 954-968-3841 ext. 235
> 6901 Kimberly Blvd.
> North Lauderdale, FL 33068
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
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