Le mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 18:04 -0500, Richard Freeman a écrit :
> On 03/10/2010 04:42 PM, Duncan wrote:
> > So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at least
> > if they want calendar access?
> >
> > What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them with
> > search and the web crawling and database correlation Google does, and
> > whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a gmail account
> > on principle?
> >
> 
> Honestly, Google calendar works well enough that I'm not sure that I 
> like the idea of re-inventing the wheel.  Maybe if somebody designed 
> some kind of open calendar access protocol that was comparable.
> 
> If you don't like Google tracking all that you do, create a gmail 
> account and don't use it for ANYTHING but Google Calendar.  That will 
> greatly limit the amount of database correlation they can do.
> 
> If somebody has a suggestion for a reasonable multi-user calendaring 
> infrastructure that has reasonably close feature parity and isn't a bear 
> to maintain I'm sure it would be considered.

that's called caldav. There's at least one opensource server that is
working decently well with evolution although it's in php.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo