I’ve been hunting for a decent calendaring protocol system for a while now, and been investigating ITIP, IMIP, iCal, xmlrpc, caldav, and finally WCAP. Having initially settled on WCAP, as a result of having a fairly decent plugin available for Lightning, I set about trying to find a decent Calendar server.
Whilst digging around for decent calendar servers and Lightning providers, I encountered the GDATA Provider for Google Calendar and Lightning or Sunbird. It allows me to hook up Lightning to my Google Calendar. Admittedly, it’s not my own private server, but given that I’ve been using Google for calendering instead of eGroupware for the past 6 months, it’s better than just a browser. One day eGroupware will have better integration with Lightning, and I may consider moving over (xmlrpc support in Korganizer is excellent), but in the meantime I’m stuck with Google calendar and Thunderbird on Linux and Windows. So go support GDATA and WCAP for KOrganizer, or XMLRPC for Thunderbird 🙂
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