As far as clients, I have no good suggestions. I use evolution, and I'm constantly irritated by the lack of good notification support. It seems to me like this should be built into its Gnome integration.
As far as servers, you're probably best off trying to find a way to synchronize an iCal file between the two computers. Most organizer apps can export iCal. Evolution (and probably most other calendars) supports reading iCals off the web (it updates them every time the app loads). If you don't like that, then you could go waaay overboard and setup a OpenXchange/Zimbra/Kolab/Scalix/Bynari/whatever groupware server. Most of the open source groupware servers are free as in beer, so don't expect a lot of community goodness with them =/. On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:36 -0400, Nick Cummings wrote: > I've realized that I really need to start using some sort of calender > software, and I'm looking for suggestions. I need something to keep > track of upcoming events and provide me with some sort of reminder. If > it also had a facility for keeping to-do lists, that'd be nice too. > > I know there are a lot of programs out there, some are stand alone, > others integrated with email (e.g. evolution and lightning), and some > integrated with a desktop environment (KOrganizer). I'm using KDE on > my machine here on campus, so I tried KOrganizer, but I was never able > to actually get it to remind me of anything, so that wasn't so > satisfactory. I figure other people have plenty of experience here and > can offer guidance. I know Google Calender is one option, but if I can > get the functionality without completely giving up my privacy I'd prefer > that. > > Additionally, it would also be really nice if I could use the software > to coordinate things with my girlfriend who is running OS X, so that > each of us could see the events on the other's calender and schedule > around them accordingly. Currently we use the dead tree method. I > though perhaps there's some sort of FOSS calender server software or > something out there that would enable this. Again, I realize that > Google Calender is a possibility here, but I'd like to explore other > options first. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Nick >
