[Web4lib] Calendar App

[Richard Wiggins]

To me there are at least 3 kinds of calendars:

-- Public events

-- Personal

-- Resource scheduling

At Michigan State we've adopted and adapted Virginia Tech's public events
calendar, VTcal,so for with great success.  It allows you to have both a
general calendar and many sub-calendars.  It's open source PHP / MySQL.  MSU
has made many local mods but not yet packaged them for SourceForge.

I don't know how well it would serve in the role of a resource scheduling
calendar but it might be worth a try depending on your needs.

Suggestion: define up front what your calendar will and will not do.  Say
the word "calendar" and people expect many different things of it.

/rich


On 6/14/06, swilso5 at kent.edu <swilso5 at kent.edu> wrote:
>
> We're looking for a free, online, multi-user calendar application to
> handle room scheduling.  The closest I've come was the built-in calendar
> app of a certain wiki product.  If anyone has seen this done
> successfully or has a suggestion, I'd really appreciate the product
> name.  Thanks,
>
> Steve Wilson, M.L.I.S.
> Adult Services Librarian
> Broward County Library
> North Lauderdale Branch
> swilso5 at kent.edu
> smwilson at browardlibrary.org
> 954-968-3841 ext. 235
> 6901 Kimberly Blvd.
> North Lauderdale, FL 33068
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