Calendaring

From Arnout Engelen

Contents 1 Representation/Aggregation 2 Sharing 3 Managing 4 Syncing 4.1 Windows 4.1.1 gnokii 4.2 Linux

[edit] Representation/Aggregation

Nice AJAX/DHTML 'timeline' widget under BSD license: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

It'd be cool to be able to make a Drupal module (or something similar) in which you could put a couple of iCalendar feeds, and which would then aggregate them and put them in a timeline or calendar widget.

• Use rss2ical to convert any 'calendars' represented in RSS to iCalendar (this seems less lossy than converting the other way around)
• Either:
  • Fast:
    • Create some glue for merging iCalendar files together
    • Convert the calendars (back) to RSS and feed them into the Universal Timeline Aggregator
  • Preferred:
    • convert iCalendar to timeline event format
    • So far so good: rss->ical->eventsource
    • create a timeline showing multiple such converted timelines - this seems to work nicely, though I think it fetches the different sources serially rather than in parallel, which is obviously undesirable.

[edit] Sharing

I think online calendar sharing is one of the things that are going to be big in the next couple of years. Most of the technical fundaments (such as iCalendar) have been in place for some time, but now clients are starting to support them.

[edit] Managing

For my personal use, I'd like to have one 'big' calendar on my desktop, into which I can easily incorporate external calendar feeds. On my phone, only the appointments I'm really interested in should be included.

If I add appointments to my phone, it should be possible to move them to my desktop calendar. If I add appointments to my calendar, or mark external ones as 'interested in', they should be synced to my phone.

If I get appointments though an attachment in my mail, I should be easily able to add them to my 'main' calendar.

Google Calendar looks interesting, I wonder how flexible it is for syncing.

[edit] Syncing

I have a nokia 6230i which has a nice calendar that i'd like to be able to sync.

[edit] Windows

We use mostly windows on the desktops at work, so I want to be able to sync there, too. The nokia PC Suite syncer is kinda flakey, but now seems to work again

[edit] gnokii

it's possible to build gnokii for windows, but it has no bluetooth support yet. should be a fun project.

[edit] Linux

It's not entirely clear whether this phone supports SyncML. Some sites say it does, some say it doesn't.

gnokii seems to work: I can import the calendar.