> What do multiple users do to call meetings, reserve rooms and resources,
> and have meetings inserted into each others' calendars?
> The boss would want to be able to "forcibly" insert meeting
> reservations/notifications into underling's calendars, while other folks
> would like to be able to provisionally insert them (if the time is
> currently unallocated in the other party's calendar). One of the
> handiest features of the Outlook calendar functions is that simply
> clicking "Accept" causes both a return acceptance to be sent, AND the
> block of time to be set aside in one's own calendar. As well, the
> Outlook shared calendar functions allow other people to see whether
> invitees are already booked for a given timeslot, so they can just
> quickly move a proposed meeting around their call-a-meeting calendar
> until they hit a timeslot where all the important participants are
> otherwise unbooked. In a busy company, negotiating meeting acceptances
> by return-e-mail responses can be extremely frustrating, since people
> tend to take hours to reply and meeting slots get rapidly booked.

Thuderbird and Lightning can do almost all of this... I use Lightning
all the time in my work environment.  I can subscribe to individual
calendars, team calendar etc.  My manager can insert meetings into my
calendar... I see proposed meetings and can one click accept or decline
them etc etc.  It all works quite nicely.

C.

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