Since you are running iOS and sounds like your "Big Computers" are apple (reference to Calendar.app) have you looked into hosting your own apple server?
Consequently, we migrated most employee calendars over to the Big G because it works on just about everything and is fairly streamline. We don’t care who is watching. While we have a google business account, we are only using the calendar feature. $0.02 Grant Christiansen CIO Cota & Cota, Inc. (W) 802-463-0000 (F) 802-463-9146 www.cotaoil.com A third generation family business marketing in SW New Hampshire and SE Vermont since 1941. From bio-blended home heating oil, propane gas, kerosene, diesel fuel and gasoline we pride ourselves on the quality of our products. We offer our fuel customers a full line of quality heating and cooling products, full plumbing services. -----Original Message----- From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Flint Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Genius... Greetings List Lurkers, I gotta hand it to Sam, Spousal Acceptance Factor - SAF. Soon, Mr. Hooker's progeny will arrive at the age of reason, and then... Spousal Acceptance Factor - Extended? Oh my... Regards, Flint On Mon, 5 May 2014, Sam Hooker wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 21:34:55 -0400 > From: Sam Hooker <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Seeking Alternative to Google Calendar > > Joe, > > I've run an instance of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (the Community > Edition) for about five years now. It'd certainly be too much gun for > a calendar-only job, but provides the caliber of webmail I need to > tempt the family away from El Goog. My wife and I both have iOS > devices accessing multiple shared calendars via CalDAV, and the only > deficiency in the Calendar.app integration is that it lacks the > ability to invite. This isn't a big deal for us in that we both > primarily use the iOS calendars in (ahem) "read-only mode", doing the > vast bulk of our event creation in the web client (on Big Computers). > The SAF* is quite high. ;-) > > * Spousal Acceptance Factor > > > $0.02, > > -sth > > sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com > > "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." > Thomas Edison > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joe Golden" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 8:55:48 PM >> Subject: Seeking Alternative to Google Calendar >> >> Vagrants, >> >> I'm looking for an alternative to goog calendar for me and the dear >> wife. This will be accessed by her iPhone5 and my linux based N9-00 >> http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/n9/ (which is a very cool >> phone running Meego). >> >> I've run a caldav server before and they seem to be reliable beasts >> that don't need much feeding. The N9 has a caldav calendar interface >> as does the iPhone I think. I've heard of some difficulty with iOS >> devices interacting with CalDAV servers, but I think they can >> interoperate. >> >> I'd rather not have the big G gathering even more data on me. Google >> calendar is easy, free, web based. These are all good and I may go >> google. I don't think I'd respect myself in the morning though. >> >> Your opinions welcomed. >> -- >> Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ Coding, Drupalism, Open Sourcery >> > Kindest Regards, Paul Flint (802) 479-2360 Home (802) 595-9365 Cell /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgement in response to this note. Paul Flint 17 Averill Street Barre, VT 05641 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
