On 07/19/18 17:51, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 07/19/2018 07:14 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 07/18/2018 04:05 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 07/18/18 14:36, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>>> On 07/18/2018 01:58 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>>>> But are you guys really telling you think the calendaring / >>>>>> scheduling >>>>>> for individual users and the main corporate account, etc. .. are >>>>>> working >>>>>> well enough with any Linux solution. >>>>> >>>>> I must confess, my servers are FreeBSD, but I'm quite sure the same is >>>>> doable easily on Linux. >>>>> >>>>> We use for calendars Owncloud (may migrate to nextcloud in some future >>>>> to come). That authenticates against LDAP. >>>> >>>> And does that calendar solution allow for things like: >>>> >>>> 1) Allowing all users in the organization to see users calendars and >>>> see when they are free to schedule a meeting with them. >>> >>> Yes at least about a part of it: calendars can be shared with some >>> people or with everybody (which we didn't do, so I may be not 100% >>> presenting "experimental fact" here). Not certain about "free/not free" >>> mapped on calendars though. >>> >>>> >>>> 2) Allow for designated people to schedule meetings for others (ie, >>>> your >>>> secretary/office assistant can schedule meetings for people, etc.) >>> >>> Yes, you can share calendar with anybody, and can set any set of choices >>> >>> can read >>> can write >>> can "re-share" your calendar >>> >>> You can share stuff to external people, and set individual >>> authentication for them independent of our system (in general, it is not >>> just calendars, but we use it for mostly synchronizing between all of >>> your devices, and also sharing: files, calendars, address book; it can >>> also be bookmarks, and there are variety of plugins expanding what else >>> can be accessed/synchronized via web/dav) >>> >>>> >>>> 3) Allow a calendar to schedule shared items .. like meeting rooms, >>>> shared vehicles, etc. So that people can check those out for specifc >>>> time windows, etc. >>> >>> No, but for resource booking (if I read the question correctly) we use >>> mrbs (https://mrbs.sourceforge.io/). I know, that is not "integrated" >>> for you to have everything in one place. I never had time to look for >>> extention/plugin to suck from mrbs booked slot into one's calendar. >>> >>>> >>>> Those are just a couple of minor things a lot of solutions can't do >>>> >>>> And do they work with imap, etc. >>> >>> No, owncloud/nextcloud don't work with IMAP as far as I know. Mail >>> server is separate issue. Zimbra in that respect IS "integrated >>> collaborative environment". And so is Kolab. They both are lacking >>> per-user spam preferences. One more thing that added some minus for each >>> of them in my estimate what to choose is: behind each of them there is >>> commercial company. And that in my looooong experience significantly >>> increases the chance one day openly available incarnation of each may >>> become no longer available for us, and I will have to find replacement >>> in a rush and find the way to migrate to it, and the more sophisticated >>> the thing is, the trickier the migration will be. >>> >>> My answers are mostly about owncloud which we use for quite some time. >>> Nextcloud is fork of owncloud, and to my regret nextcloud doesn't work >>> with postgresql, only with mysql/MariaDB, whereas owncloud works with >>> postgresql as well as with mysql/MariaDB (still we have some reasons to >>> migrate to nextcloud at some point). >>> >>> I hope, someone with more knowledge will chime in. >>> >>> >> >> Don't get me wrong. I've run qmail, postfix, and zimbra mail servers >> with IMAP, along with webmail front ends (roundcude, squirrel mail, >> etc), for windows, mac and linux clients for several companies (all on >> CentOS of course :D) .. I just don't think that calendaring that I have >> seen is as user friendly as google calendar (for example). But I'm all >> for people running mail servers on CentOS (or any other Linux) if they >> want ! > > I can't use google calendar because it used tracking cookies which I block. > > So it doesn't work for me. > > Would actually love to see a distributed / federated calendaring > platform developed, that I suspect would do well. Owncloud and nextcloud support federation. Valeri > > What I mean is Company A can choose to federate with Company B when > needed to allow cross-scheduling when needed while both still maintain > complete ownership of their calendar data. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++