[TriLUG] Organizational calendar/forum recommendations

Dave Sorenson dave at logicalgeek.com
Fri Jan 13 13:14:44 EST 2006


Funny you should ask.. this

http://www.planscalendar.com/
was a freshmeat highlight on /. this morning. I was going to D/L and take a look at it this weekend for one of my projects.

Dave


Rick DeNatale wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations/experiences with FOSS solutions for
> controlled forums and shared calendars.
>
> I just might shortly find myself in the position of becoming a
> regional coordinator for a national non-profit organization.
>
> As such the major part of my responsibilities would be to keep an
> official calendar of events sponsored by local chapters in the
> Carolinas and try to minimize conflicts in scheduling (they compete
> for attendees/vendors etc.).  I'd have very little power to dictate to
> chapters, but I would control the official regional calendar which
> would determine whether individual events were sanctioned by the
> national organization.
>
> One of the things I'd like to do is make the event planning more
> transparent and open, so that chapters could let other chapters know
> what they were thinking about before two chapters inadvertantly set up
> conflicting events, something which has happened with surprising
> frequency.
>
> What I've been thinking about is setting up a website which tracked
> potential and committed events on a calendar.  I'd need permissions
> controls which would keep the official status of events under my
> control, and allow chapter representatives to edit their own proposed
> events but not muck with each others.
>
> I've been using webcalendar at home to keep calendars for my wife,
> myself and the household, and I suppose I could work something out
> using it's layered calendar views, but I'm thinking that it might
> become unwieldy.
>
> Also, I'd like to use the website for general communication within and
> about the chapter, so other functions like a forum and/or one or
> multiple blogs might be useful.
>
> I've been using mediawiki for some time for other purposes, and love
> it, but I think that I need a more controlled environment for this
> job.  I've started to look at various CMS solutions, but I'm not sure
> exactly how to evaluate them.  The two likely candidates at first
> glance are drupal and plone.
>
> I seem to see drupal being mentioned more frequently, but on the other
> hand, plone is officially supported on ubuntu.  Both seem to have some
> calendar/events functionality but it's not clear from either's web
> site how functional/easy either would be to adapt to my requirements.
>
> Now that I've probably put everyone to sleep, any comments? Bueller! Bueller!
>
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