Hi Darren,
Sunbird from mozilla is accessible in any computer running linux and
windows connected to the home network (I guess it should be compatible
with other OS systems as well) and it's free. The problem is that it's
getting slow depending how many instruments you have for booking. To
address however booking in speculative manner is more complicated than a
simple electronic booking system.
cheers
Nikos
Dr Nikos Pinotsis
Max F. Perutz Laboratories
University of Vienna
Campus Vienna Biocenter 5
A-1030 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43-1-4277-52224
On 02/16/2011 01:25 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
Hello,
Since we are now part of the "Facebook Generation" (or at least 10% of
the planet is), it seems there must be a better way of distributing
time on our various Aktas to an institute of scientists than our
current system which involves a race for the paper booking sheet every
Thursday morning. Inevitably people book in a speculative manner and
time slots are not always used due to problems in preparative steps
etc. Bits of paper in different buildings make it difficult to see who
booked what and when.
Has anyone successfully implemented an electronic system, perhaps
shared through the "cloud", that allows real time booking in a manner
that can be revised easily and has worked well? An electronic calendar
(Google..) would partially address this, but it seems some sort of
social networking site/tool might be better for negotiating instrument
time, swapping timeslots, reallocating unused time if the sample prep
fails.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If governments can be
toppled through Facebook, I'm sure we can book our Aktas in a better way!
Darren
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