[SGVLUG] What linux calendering programs do people like

[Rod Morison]

Fwiw, google's calendar (and contact) activesync works flawlessly with 
my Nokia/Symbian. I moved from a self maintained Horde site with all 
kinds of sync probs and have been quite happy.

On 12/1/2010 2:13 PM, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> I'm a big fan of google's calendar as well for the same reasons.  I
> share calendars with my wife so I can see when the kids have their
> piano lessons, band competitions, dr's appointments, etc.  I can also
> view my alumni group's calendars and some of the calendars at work.  I
> can sync from my desktop at work and at work and on my iPhone.
>
> I wasn't aware of anything built into thunderbird.  I don't see
> anything called Lightning.  I'd like to see a presentation on what
> works natively on Linux.
>
> claude
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jeremy Leader
> <jleader at alumni.caltech.edu>  wrote:
>> You can also export a feed from Google's calendar, and view it in Lightning,
>> or probably many other desktop calendar programs.
>>
>> I currently have Google calendars for myself, my wife, my son's cub scout
>> activities, and SGVLUG all showing in Lightning.
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy Leader
>> jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
>>
>> On 12/01/2010 10:18 AM, Tom Emerson wrote:
>>> Robert - you're talking to geeks - not many of us have enough of a life
>>> to need a calendar in the first place :)
>>>
>>> Seriously, though, I've started to look at Google's calendar (online
>>> therefore accessible everywhere)  previously I've dabbled with the KDE
>>> "PIM", or personal information manager/suite (integrates kmail and the
>>> native KDE calendar)  Thunderbird has "lightning" as their calendar,
>>> which I've toyed with as well.
>>>
>>> One thing that is nice about Google's calendar is that it can take a
>>> feed from other websites or data sources and integrate the results all
>>> in one place.  You could, for instance, create one calendar account that
>>> imports the calendars of everyone on a team or project, then see at a
>>> glance when you could schedule meetings.
>>>
>>> You can also embed a google calendar into other websites (I've done this
>>> with the SGVLUG calendar - go take a look)

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