Re: [Evolution] OT: Calendar format and servers

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley attbi com>]

Thanks to those who responded for the helpful information...


On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 08:11, Dan Winship wrote:
> > * what is the difference between iCal and vcalendar
> > formats ?  Is there a place I can go to learn more
> > specifics about the formats?  Is there a single standard,
> > or if not is there one format that is more popular than
> > the other?
>
> vCalendar is an older standard created by an industry consortium.
> iCalendar is the current IETF standard that is based on it. iCalendar is
> basically vCalendar 2.0 (and if you look at your Evo calendar.ics file,
> you'll see that the first line is "BEGIN:VCALENDAR" and a few lines down
> is "VERSION:2.0".) The basic format is defined by RFC 2445, and RFCs
> 2446 and 2447 describe the additions for doing email-based scheduling.
>
> > * any recommendations on a good shared calendaring
> > solution?  One of our criteria is the ability for us to
> > access and change the calendar while on the road, which
> > probably means web interface.  I'm also pushing strongly
> > for open standards, and am trying to push away from
> > Outbreak/Expunge.  Having the calendaring integrated with
> > e-mail and being able to sync with Palm are also
> > important.  For a client, I wish I could push Evo, but
> > most of our users are on Windows...
>
> The IETF calendaring and scheduling working group is working on a
> standard called CAP (Calendar Access Protocol), which will be the open
> standard for calendar servers. But it's not progressing very quickly so
> there aren't going to be clients and servers that support it any time
> soon. Until then, there really isn't much in the way of open standards
> for calendaring.
>
> The only calendar server I know of that has Windows, Linux, and web
> clients is Exchange. If you don't mind making at least the Linux users
> use the web interface then there are more options. SuSE's email server
> has a web-based calendar system, as does Sun ONE (formerly iPlanet). I'm
> not sure about what sort of functionality Steltor and MeetingMaker have.
> There are also a handful of free web-based systems in various states of
> completion (phpGroupWare, TUTOS).
>
> -- Dan
>
>
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