Funny you should ask.. this http://www.planscalendar.com/ was a freshmeat highlight on /. this morning. I was going to D/L and take a look at it this weekend for one of my projects.
Dave Rick DeNatale wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations/experiences with FOSS solutions for controlled forums and shared calendars. I just might shortly find myself in the position of becoming a regional coordinator for a national non-profit organization. As such the major part of my responsibilities would be to keep an official calendar of events sponsored by local chapters in the Carolinas and try to minimize conflicts in scheduling (they compete for attendees/vendors etc.). I'd have very little power to dictate to chapters, but I would control the official regional calendar which would determine whether individual events were sanctioned by the national organization. One of the things I'd like to do is make the event planning more transparent and open, so that chapters could let other chapters know what they were thinking about before two chapters inadvertantly set up conflicting events, something which has happened with surprising frequency. What I've been thinking about is setting up a website which tracked potential and committed events on a calendar. I'd need permissions controls which would keep the official status of events under my control, and allow chapter representatives to edit their own proposed events but not muck with each others. I've been using webcalendar at home to keep calendars for my wife, myself and the household, and I suppose I could work something out using it's layered calendar views, but I'm thinking that it might become unwieldy. Also, I'd like to use the website for general communication within and about the chapter, so other functions like a forum and/or one or multiple blogs might be useful. I've been using mediawiki for some time for other purposes, and love it, but I think that I need a more controlled environment for this job. I've started to look at various CMS solutions, but I'm not sure exactly how to evaluate them. The two likely candidates at first glance are drupal and plone. I seem to see drupal being mentioned more frequently, but on the other hand, plone is officially supported on ubuntu. Both seem to have some calendar/events functionality but it's not clear from either's web site how functional/easy either would be to adapt to my requirements. Now that I've probably put everyone to sleep, any comments? Bueller! Bueller! -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
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