[ale] Sharing Calendar - How?

[scott mcbrien]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

>  This is related to the question on organizer/phone.
>
> My wife and I work together.  (no, that's not a joke.)
>
> On the same Fedora Core 10 system.   Running Evolution, against a local
> Dovecot IMAP server.     (I have the console, she has Nx client)
>
> I have a Kyocera smart phone.   I can usually hot-sync it via serial port,
> no joy with USB.
>
> She has a Palm Z-22.   She could probably hot-sync it via USB.
>
> It would be logical to share each other's calendar, or at least have it on
> the palm.   And phone/contact list.   Is that really all that much to ask?
>
> However, I've yet to figure out how to even share each other's calendar on
> Evolution.     Yes, there's a function labeled "Subscribe to Other User's
> Calendar", which does absolutely nothing.    And an Action labeled "Publish
> Calendar Information", which seems to allow writing the calendar to an
> external file, via a variety of methods, and I can get it to spit out her
> calendar to a file, and with enough karma I can actually define another
> calendar which shows her calendar.
>
> BUT, I can't change her calendar, she can't change mine, and we can't have
> a single combined calendar that we both can change.   And  unless I'm
> missing something you can only hotsync a single calendar to a Palm.
>
> Is there a better way of doing shared calendars on Linux that hotsync to a
> Palm?
>
>
> I won't even get started on shared contacts.  Supposedly one can create an
> LDAP server, and share that?  Any samples? Honestly, this isn't a hobby.
> How hard is such a simple task supposed to be?
>
> Yeah, I've tried these questions on the Evolution groups/forums with no
> response.  I just thought I'd ask real people if they have found rational
> solutions, that don't make email a full-time job.
>

Neal,

Before my wife and I started syncing our iPhones and maintaining things on
iCal, we were using Google Calendar through Google Domain Hosting for our
personal domain.  Doesn't help much with the Palm, but being a former Z22
user, not much will help with that palm.  Google Calendar permits you to
share the calendar and decide which accounts are permitted to read, or
read/write.  All you need are devices with decent web browser capability,
and or an integrated google app like the BlackBerry has.

-Scott
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