Calender Systems

[Darren Ladner]

I need a new calender of events type software. Right now we were using the open source vtcalender system until it broke. This system has been nothing but problems. The previous web designers were the ones that put this calender system into use. What are others using? I know that a lot of institutions have CMS which include a calender system with the application. Anybody out there using a different open source calender system or a reasonable priced commercial calender? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Again thanks in advance to everyone who replies.

[Doug Minor]

Have you taken a look at Active Data Exchange (http://www.activedatax.com/calendar.htm)? We are in the middle of implementing the calendar as part of our site redesign. They can host your calendar or you can host it yourself. You can also pull events into the calendar from other scheduler systems via a persistent .csv or xml feed. Also includes features like social bookmarking, add to my calendar, e-mail to friend, etc.

[Seth Meranda]

The UNL events system (open source) has worked well for us, and is used by many institutions: http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/

[Aaron Knight, Web Developer]

We're using a home-built system based on classic ASP and Microsoft SQL 2005.

[Michael Plyler]

We're using Helios Calendar (http://www.helioscalendar.com). It's a PHP/mySQL system, easy to deploy, reasonably priced and easy to customize.

[Darren Ladner]

Michael thanks for the info on helios. Do you use the $149 version or the developer version for $699? Is the $149 version pretty easy to customize with the schools Logo and colors? Is it easy to install? Have you had any major issues or problems with it?

Thanks, Darren

[Michael Plyler]

I use the $149...you can customize everything that you want on the front-end with this. The $699 license is if you want to customize the admin interface and resell their product as a developer.

I'm more of a .NET/SQL person. It was extremely easy to install and customize. I've not had any issues at all. They do have email support, but their FAQs and forum support have answered any question I've had.

[Darren Ladner]

Thanks for all the responses. Greatly appreciated!

[Hilary Knox]

We are considering moving to Bedework. Per their website, "Bedework is an open-source, enterprise calendar system designed to conform to current calendaring standards. Made for higher education and built in Java, Bedework has a centralized server architecture allowing immediate update of public and personal calendaring information."
http://www.bedework.org/bedework/

[Samuel]

At ESSEC Business School, we are using Google Calendar:
http://www.essec.edu/sites/ESSEC/WMBA-Tour-US.html

It's great tool : any ESSEC staff can add events on this calendar and it's free tool

We use it to promote our fairs, forums and corporate events

[Chris Wiegman]

We're also going over to Google Calendar. Our campus has been on Google Apps for a while now so using Google calendar on the web provides a familiar and easy solution for our audience.

[Casey Davis]

I believe google calendar to be by far the best. You can have many contributors, people can subscribe, rss, click an event and add to their own calendar. Tons of features!

http://busn.uco.edu/calendar

[Christine Goodwin]

We are about to implement Trumba calendaring for our events. Our admissions department is already using it. Here is a link to their calendar pages. I have found their support to be outstanding thus far.

http://www.ut.edu/visit/calendar/

We plan to go campus wide during the winter break.