Hi,
We're working out which calendar server alongside a (currently) 500 users
email setup and CalDAV seems like an option. The other obvious
linux-based, FOSS solution seems to be Apple's calendar server. I've just
installed davical as packaged in Ubuntu Karmic (0.9.7-0) this afternoon
with the ldap hook against an existing kolab setup. This has worked pretty
well so far. I have a few questions to help me get an idea how practical
it would be for us to use:
- Has DAViCal been used for medium to large sized organisations? How
big? I see the docs mention "several hundred staff". Supposing for
safety we'll grow to a couple of thousand, would we be outside your
target audience?
- Is there a tested or recommended plugin for Outlook which would work
well with DAViCal? I guess this is a general CalDAV question, but it's
good to know as we have some outlook addicts.
- The web interface seems a little clunky. I mean no offence but it's not
really neat enough for me to send users toward. I suspect it's mostly
a question of hiding the bits they wouldn't be interested in and
steering them straight toward editing personal info and ACLs. It's not
clear to me why users logging in would need to list all users, report
bugs or read details of relationships.
- If calendar clients could set the ACLs themselves, we probably wouldn't
need to send users to the web interface at all. Sunbird doesn't seem
able to do that, though I see it's listed as WIP in the wiki but
Mulberry and iCal aren't supported in. Is there a standard way to set
ACLs from within the calendar client or are they all doing it
differently?
- When you set an ACL (say allow someone read access), it appears that
applies to all calendars for a particular user. Is it possible or
planned to have different ACLs per calendar? I'd personally like a work
calendar and a private life calendar which needless to say would ideally
have different permissions.
I realise now that I'm using a slightly old version of davical so perhaps
some of these questions would be answered if I used more recent packages.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Gavin
We're working out which calendar server alongside a (currently) 500 users
email setup and CalDAV seems like an option. The other obvious
linux-based, FOSS solution seems to be Apple's calendar server. I've just
installed davical as packaged in Ubuntu Karmic (0.9.7-0) this afternoon
with the ldap hook against an existing kolab setup. This has worked pretty
well so far. I have a few questions to help me get an idea how practical
it would be for us to use:
- Has DAViCal been used for medium to large sized organisations? How
big? I see the docs mention "several hundred staff". Supposing for
safety we'll grow to a couple of thousand, would we be outside your
target audience?
- Is there a tested or recommended plugin for Outlook which would work
well with DAViCal? I guess this is a general CalDAV question, but it's
good to know as we have some outlook addicts.
- The web interface seems a little clunky. I mean no offence but it's not
really neat enough for me to send users toward. I suspect it's mostly
a question of hiding the bits they wouldn't be interested in and
steering them straight toward editing personal info and ACLs. It's not
clear to me why users logging in would need to list all users, report
bugs or read details of relationships.
- If calendar clients could set the ACLs themselves, we probably wouldn't
need to send users to the web interface at all. Sunbird doesn't seem
able to do that, though I see it's listed as WIP in the wiki but
Mulberry and iCal aren't supported in. Is there a standard way to set
ACLs from within the calendar client or are they all doing it
differently?
- When you set an ACL (say allow someone read access), it appears that
applies to all calendars for a particular user. Is it possible or
planned to have different ACLs per calendar? I'd personally like a work
calendar and a private life calendar which needless to say would ideally
have different permissions.
I realise now that I'm using a slightly old version of davical so perhaps
some of these questions would be answered if I used more recent packages.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Gavin