Wm Stewart wrote:
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What FOSS needs is an analogue for Exchange, a back-end calendar server
with a nice open API supporting free/busy, including to native user
interface applications like Evolution. There are many attempts at this
with eGroupWare listed on their site, making it a nice candidate and one
of the reasons we picked it, but all interfaces we looked at did not
provide a clean API supporting free/busy to the Gnome standard email
application, Evolution. So we are building one around RFC 2445. Any
help very welcome!
Try Cosmo. The Calendar Server part of the Chandler project from the
OSF. http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
The server is Caldav compliant and has a web UI built-in too so you can
get to it even when away from your typical desktop. Register on the
"Chandler Hub" and that is basically a publicly accessible Cosmo server
so you can try it out.
The desktop portion of the Chandler project is nice but doesn't really
"cut the mustard" for email. We use Thunderbird + Lightning and the
Cosmo server. Works great.
There is another excellent and very lightweight calendar server called
Davical. http://rscds.sourceforge.net/.
And of course there is the mother of all calendar servers Bedework:
http://www.bedework.org/bedework/setup.do
All the above are open source and standards compliant.
If you are looking for really Open Source Groupware apps, there are
quite a few out there that are actually very comprehensively featured. A
bit of judicious Googling will locate them. (Open Groupware, The Horde,
Citadel, SOGo...)
Cheers
Al
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