In addition to Google Calendar (www.google.com/calendar) you might also look at www.spongecell.com and www.kiko.com

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.   

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.

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.

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).

David K. Whisler

From: users-bounces@xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:03 AM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] calendar application

A few ideas

• I have not created the application, only documented it on XWiki.org... But you can thank Ludovic & Marta for it :-)
• I cannot really help you on the development part but I fear the current implementation of the calendar is not powerful enough to support your needs without a heavy lifting
• You could try to embed a Google Calendar on a wiki page, the only drawback being that it would require your users to have both a XWiki and a Google account, making rights setting redundant... And this is far from a true XWiki client, only a iframe ish implementation.
• Another basic way to do it would be to provide one calendar per space by copying the application ClassSheet and ClassTemplate in every space where you want to use it, but you will end up with as many calendars as groups and no overview.

Sorry I cannot help more,
Guillaume

On 05/09/07, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez <webmaster@xen.net > wrote:

Hi all,

Fighting to be able to follow the development process of the product and
fulfil some of our users' requirements!

I've a group that need to share a calendar. A quite frequent requirement.

The EventCalendarApplication developed by Guillaume could help us to
solve this problem and sticks with XWiki, but I would like to know if
any further development is expected for it. One more time I must
recognize that I am still far from being able to help with this
development, but I keep trying to catch up. This application adds
Microformats to my to-do list... :-(

What we need now in addition to the current features is to filter events
on an user/group basis. That is, to apply rights on an event basis. As
far as I see, if I set any access rights now, they will apply to the
whole calendar.

Google calendar offers a nice option to be accessed from several
calendar clients as iCal, Sunbird or Thunderbird. Has anybody considered
to develop a XWiki client to access Google calendars?

Thank you for your insight,

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team

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