Ok. Looks like this one _may_ fulfill our calendering needs. Testing required.

[Brennan Ashton]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 00:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> As I posted to the ticket, I've come across another candidate which
>> appears to meet the requirements and which I don't _think_ we've
>> dismissed already - eGroupWare:
>>
>> http://www.egroupware.org/
>>
>> it has a decent web interface, doesn't seem to be insane in any way,
>> doesn't need Java (it's PHP), is fairly mature and actively developed,
>> and has CalDAV support for the calendaring stuff.
>>
>> I'm probably going to deploy it on my own network for my own needs,
>> will
>> try to report back on how that goes. My servers run Mandriva, where
>> it's
>> packaged (though a very old version, I'm currently updating the
>> packages).
>
> Well...it works!
>
> http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/egroupware_caldav_it_works.png
>
> egroupware's web interface on the right showing the test appointment I
> set up, evolution on the left showing the same appointment: it's
> accessing the calendar from my personal egroupware server, via CalDAV
> (see the left hand pane).
>
> It seems like a pretty impressive little beastie, too. I managed to kill
> it by somewhat inadvisedly trying to use its webmail support with my
> fairly underpowered mail server's gigantic IMAP mail boxes, without
> using the imapproxy instance I have set up on the mail server. I think
> it timed out on something and left its MySQL database in a broken state.
> But that's the only problem I had. I haven't gone beyond setting up the
> test calendar appointment and verifying Evo could connect to it, really,
> but I'll stress it a bit more tomorrow by trying to get SyncML working,
> sticking my *real* calendar in it, and trying contacts as well.
>
> The server I'm using runs Mandriva; I've updated Mandriva's egroupware
> packages for this purpose. It'd be fairly trivial to convert the
> packages to Fedora. Upstream actually provides Fedora packages, but at a
> glance they're not terribly clean. I haven't checked whether there are
> any private copies of what ought to be shared resources in egroupware
> yet, really, but at a glance it doesn't involve any hideous packaging
> nightmares; it's all just PHP, and it seems to use shared resources
> where appropriate (it uses quite a lot of php-pear stuff).
>
> Do poke me on IRC if you have any questions. Will duplicate this post on
> the ticket.
> --
> Adam Williamson

I have deployed this as well a few times thought its history and it
has served me well each time.  One thing to consider is how large of a
service it is, I have never really had to bother with trimming all the
"extra" features (mail, address book etc...) from it.

Brennan Ashton