I LOVE Zimbra. We never used Exchange, but we were using Outlook before the Zimbra initiative. We hosted our own mail using I-Mail before Zimbra. When we went to Zimbra, we eliminated Outlook completely, and stopped any support for it. The group calendars and sharing in Zimbra are excellent. The calendars are pulled every 15 minutes to an ical format and phpicalendar picks up from there. Since phpicalendar allows rss feeds, etc, I can easily have an rss feed into our websites that pull the data from phpicalendar, which gets it's data from Zimbra. We have been running Zimbra for about 3 years now.
Steve Carrington Murphysboro CUSD #186 Unit Office 819 Walnut Street Murphysboro, IL 62966 V - 618-684-3781 F - 618-684-2465 "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein ----- Original Message ----- From: "john" <lists.j...@gmail.com> To: "Tech-Geeks Mailing List" <tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:46:47 AM Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] need recommendation for web based group calendar Hi Steve et al, Thanks for the great discussion and the link to phpicalender. I love it. It's a great way to "skin" google calendars. I think we'll proceed that way. By the way how do you like Zimbra and can you compare it with Exchange/outlook at all? Thanks! John On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Steve Carrington <carrington.st...@mhs.org> wrote: > what about phpicalendar? > http://phpicalendar.net/documentation/index.php/Main_Page > > We use this to display our Zimbra Calendars to the public. > > > Steve Carrington > Murphysboro CUSD #186 > Unit Office > 819 Walnut Street > Murphysboro, IL 62966 > V - 618-684-3781 > F - 618-684-2465 > > "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we > created them." - Albert Einstein > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "john" <lists.j...@gmail.com> > To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:31:01 AM > Subject: [tech-geeks] need recommendation for web based group calendar > > Hi all, > > We've been using google calanders to publish district wide events. > Latley, we've been getting complaints that it isn't flexible enough > for users needs. For example it doesn't allow the public users to > filter events so a parent at an elementary school has to pick their > events out from stuff happening at a highschool, rather than just > ticking a box and only showing events at one school. > > Currently we're reviewing Trumba which seems to do what we want > http://www.trumba.com/connect/default.aspx but it costs 100.00 a month > (sort of steep IMO) > > We've looked at bedework http://www.bedework.org/bedework/ which is an > interesting open source project, but doesn't seem particularly user > friendly. > > Can anyone recommend a web based shared calendar that supports > filter-views and it reasonably easy to set up and use? Bonus points if > it's GPL or Open Source!! > > > Thanks! > > John > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
