[hackerspaces] Google calendar FLOSS alternatives ?

[Yves Quemener]

Hi,

using maily google Calendar/doodle here.

As every information put on it was public, we had no real concerns about 
privacy there so Google was not really a problem. One day, censorship 
could be a concern but it is not yet the case.

However, a FLOSS alternative would be really good to have and would 
probably be used by many persons. There are probably efforts to do that 
already. I know for instance that the German pirate party is developing 
a lot of applications to depend as few as possible on third party 
providers. It makes a lot of sense for a political party to do that ! 
Maybe they could give you useful pointers.


Iv

PS : Et bravo pour l'ouverture d'un nouveau hackerspace. Peut être qu'on 
va réussir à peupler un peu le désert Français sur la carte de 
hackerspaces.org !

On 01/19/2011 12:09 PM, Guyzmo wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      in the process of installing the  tools  of  a  new  hackerspace  in
> Paris, France (The Loop, http://leloop.org), we're in  need  of  a  good
> shared  calendar  application,  in  order  to  manage  and  share  daily
> presence.
>
>      After trying out several calendars  applications,  I  found  nothing
> that could be a useable web calendar. I've tested phpicalendar,  but  it
> does not enables one to edit through the web interface, monket, but  the
> interface is really too basic, bedework is just too heavy for our  512MB
> of ram vserver, and some others...
>
>      Because we're self-managed, from our hosting to the  space  we  use,
> we'd like to have all our systems out of  the  'cloud',  and  thus,  not
> relying on applications ran by google.
>
>      How do you manage the calendar sharing problem in other hackerspaces ?
> Is everybody relying on google's calendar ?
>
> Cheers,
>