[xwiki-users] calendar application

[Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez]

Whisler, Dave wrote:
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> In addition to Google Calendar (www.google.com/calendar 
> <http://www.google.com/calendar>) you might also look at 
> www.spongecell.com <http://www.spongecell.com> and www.kiko.com 
> <http://www.kiko.com>
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> I've used all three to some extent, as I did significant research over 
> a couple of months trying to find a free, no ads, no spam solution for 
> a bible study group I lead at my church.   I needed a web-based 
> calendar solution -- but one that is either low-cost or free, and has 
> no spam or ads......   You might think this would be an easy search 
> with lots of solutions.   And, yes, there are a lot of webcalendars 
> out in the market.   
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> However, what really narrowed the list of solutions down is the next 
> requirement:    The web-calendar needs to be able send out 
> invites/RSVP's to an event that was added to the calendar and then 
> handle the responses (yes, no, maybe) as well as comments from the 
> guests.    As if you are holding an event, you want to be able to 
> track who is coming and any details about them (what food they are 
> bringing to the event, etc...) in the comments section.
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> These are the only three solutions I found, and all three work 
> reasonably well.   I'm hoping that the XWiki team could add some (or 
> all) of these functions to XWiki or find a way to integrate one or 
> more of these solutions into an XWiki Site.
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> The current calendar in XWiki is really not usable in its current 
> incarnation (in my opinion) as it lacks important functionality.   
> (but everything else about XWiki is really cool).
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> David K. Whisler
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Thanks, David. Your experience is of major importance for us!

Please, what solution have you finally adopted?

I will sign up for both Spongcell and Kiki trying to evaluate the pros 
and contras of each option. I am quite happy so far by using Google 
Calendar: it is rather easy to integrate it in Thunderbird. What I have 
not clear at all is if it is possible to set up Google Calendar to 
automatically send email reminders to a given event attendees. Do you 
know if this is possible by using any of the other solutions?

I am afraid this thread is going of topic: we are not speaking about 
XWiki :-) Even though it could be useful to keep this thread updated to 
help further developments in XWiki Calendar.

All the best,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team

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