[Phpgroupware-developers] Integrating phpgroupware and mozilla calendar

[Buchan Milne]

I am involved in a project trying to find a replacement for the 
functionality in the Star Schedule and Star Schedule Server that were 
part of Star Office 5.2 for OpenOffice.org. Since OpenOffice.org already 
interfaces with Mozilla (for accessing address-book data) and both are 
cross-platform and open source, the Mozilla calendar is an interesting 
option.

The problem with group calendaring (to replace the functionality of the 
Star Schedule server) is the calendar server. Since phpgroupware already 
has a "calendar server", and can (or will be able to quite soon) 
communicate in iCal, and support both SOAP and XML-RPC as transports, it 
is a possible source of a calendar server.

Would the mozilla calendar hackers be interested in
-trying to add support for phpgroupware as calendar server
-adding support for features available in Star Schedule (for example the 
ability to view free/busy time for all the participants of an event, and 
easily schedule a meeting in the free time, ability to browse other 
calendars)?

If so, how would one go about adding support for phpgroupware to Mozilla 
Calendar? AFAIK mozilla has XML-RPC capability.
-How would one use this to send an XML-RPC request to phpgroupware.

-How difficult would it be to add another tab (next to "events" and
"search") in the sidebar for browsing other users in a calendar.

-How difficult would it be to add another "view" at which supported 
seeing more details of an event (such as participants), or should this 
be added to the existing event creation dialog?

I believe there are many people who are looking for a solution to this 
problem, and while a real iCAP compliant calendar client and server 
would be nice, support for iCal over XML-RPC or SOAP to phpgroupware may 
be a worthwhile first target to attract users and developers.

Regards,
Buchan

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