[BBLISA] Calendaring Software Suggestions?

[Matt Finnigan]

By Outlook.com, I assume that you're not talking about Office365, which is
essentially hosted Exchange and works just like Exchange, and has a pretty
usable web interface.

What's your budget?

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Doc Kinne <rkinne at aavso.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks:
>
> We'd like to up our game in terms of calendaring.
>
> Up to this time we've had separate email and calendaring software. Someone
> would send an email to someone asking if they could meet and they would
> agree and both would manually put it into their calendars. Their calendars
> would be largely viewable by everyone. The calendars were being driven by a
> simple CalDav server and the user interface was Apple Calendar.
>
> We have a new boss who has come from a Microsoft Exchange environment and
> is used to being able to invite people to a meeting by making a calendar
> entry. While we've not done that to this point, I certainly can see the
> advantages to it.
>
> My problem has been finding a solution. The only environment like that I
> had any professional experience in was GroupWise 5.5 about 15 years ago. I
> don't really want to go into a Microsoft Exchange environment since it
> would disenfranchise a portion of my office as far as I can tell. We're
> largely Linux servers with largely Mac and a couple of Linux workstations.
>
> I thought Outlook.com was an answer, but the more I try out its
> calendering software the worse I like it. I'm having bad problems creating
> an event via inviting people and then later changing details of that event.
> That should be something you can do, but its not working out with
> Outlook.com.
>
> So, my question is: What have you guys found that works? What do you use?
> Please let me know what your favorite is.
>
> Thanks!
> ---
> Doc Kinne
> American Assoc. of Variable Star Observers
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