In my search for a basic calendaring system only for my company I came
across schoolbell.  Compared to everything else it's got the best looking
and most usage UI I've seen and I like the idea for being able to to
subscribe to the icalendars through Sunbird (Mozilla Calendar), iCal, and
Outlook 2003 (via the new open source "remotecalendars" plugin.. yet
untested though)  Everything else I've seen either seems to be a whole
solution, i.e. email+groupware doing neither very well (plus we have an
excellent mail system now and we don't want to change), has the
functionality I want but terrible documentation and web UI
(Opengroupware), or is an overpriced commercial product or web only
service.  So a couple questions/comments:

1. How/where do I remove all references to "schoolbell" in the web UI? 
It's not particularly appropriate for my case.  (And it's just a bad name
to begin with.. limits your potential user base for such a promising
looking app)

2. How well does it scale?  This isn't going to be big at ~80 users right
now,  not going much bigger then that.  I don't expect heavy usage from
any of these people either.

3. Are resources not part of the iCalendar specs?  I don't see resources
I've booked when I view the calendar through Sunbird...  Or this is a
Sunbird thing?

4. I REALLY don't like the idea of not using either a standard relational
SQL DB or human readable files to store user info and ZODB instead.  I
also don't like the idea of having to use SchoolBell's internal
authentication system instead of what we typically do which is LDAP to
Active Directory for unified logins.. or via a DB if that doesn't work. 
Users tend to have the memories of goldfish and it's a administration
hassle to have to change passwords when users can't deal with more then
one of two at a time.  Seems likes schools would want this functionality
available too.

5. This kind of ties into #4.  Is there someway to setup user "templates"?
 Adding a new user, adding them to a group, subscribing them to calendars,
and setting up their ACL's seems like a hassle.  I was thinking of hacking
something together that used the ZODB export/import scripts to pull data
out of the SchoolBell, modify it as needed (using LDAP,DB's etc via some
php based page), and re-importing.  Not the best method and extra work
initially for me, and other ideas?


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