Calendar choice: looking for advice

[Dave Cross]

2008/9/11 Brian Millett <bmillett at gmail.com>:
> Timothy Murphy escribío:
>> I've been looking at two "calendar" programs,
>> for keeping a record of appointments, etc.
>>
>> These are Google Calendar, which seems to me
>> to be well-designed, and the default choice
>> which any rival must improve upon in some way.
>>
>> The rival I have been looking at is the setup described in
>> "Building a Simple Calendar Server with Fedora and WebDAV"
>> at <http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/
>> Building_a_Simple_Calendar_Server_with_Fedora_and_WebDAV>.
>>
>> I also looked briefly at KOrganizer".
>>
>> But I was wondering if anyone has looked into this
>> more carefully, and if so what conclusion they came to?
>>
>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> What do you use for email?  Sounds like you use KDE, but...
>
> I use Thunderbird and the lightning plugin.  The integration is much better than before
> and is quite good.  The appointments, or invites sent by my mac friends can easily be
> subscribed to.  It works for me.  I use the latest plugin found below and it is stable for me.
>
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/linux-xpi/lightning.xpi

And if you're using Thunderbird with Lightning then I also highly
recommend the Provider add-on which enables two-way synchronisation
with Google Calendar.

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631

Dave...