> * 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 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
