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Authored by: babbage on Sep 15, '02 07:57:21PM
I work with the author of Net::ICal , Shane Landrum:-)

She doesn't currently have a Mac, but the introduction of Apple iCal has gotten her interested in reviving work on the Net::ICal suite, and I'm interested in helping out if I can find the time to do so. Apparently this interchange format can be hooked up to all kinds of popular calendaring applications, including Entourage/Outlook, Lotus Notes, Palm Desktop, and others.

If anyone manages to come up with a good tool for shuttling data between these applications (I'd love to be able to coordinate things between my Notes account, iCal, and my Palm Pilot) and provide some kind of good internet based shared calendaring application, people would finally have some choice (in the same way that open protocols like IMAP and LDAP give people choice) rather than having to be locked into the big proprietary groupware applications. Apple is getting us part of the way there; libraries like Net::ICal could help us to get the rest of the way...

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Authored by: theMaker on Sep 15, '02 11:08:35PM
I have already started work on this. Posted a couple of messages here to see if anyone wanted to assist. I have been studying the specifications of the iCalendar format and have found some excellent documentation on the tagset used as well as how to distibute and manage the data. I supplied links to this documentation in PDF format that I have posted on my server. Here is the post with the links: http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&title=iCal+to+website+publishing+%3F+We+need+an+XML+parser&type=article&order=&pid=11589 I did not know about the perl module and will be looking into it. I have applied for a sourceforge account to handle the project and am working on some initial documentation to get the project going. Again anyone interested in assisting, please email me conrad@schilbemedia.com

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Authored by: babbage on Sep 16, '02 12:22:40AM
Rather than divide effort, it would be good to chip in with the existing (if slightly dormant) Net::ICal / Reefknot stuff.

Also, note that ical-the-format is *not* XML based, and I'm not sure that there is anything to be gained by coming up with some kind of XML wrapper for it. The format is relatively simple as is, and it seems to me that it can only get more complex by wrapping it in more markup. There are more interesting problems to be solved here :-)

Anyway, you seem to be the same person that just wrote to the Reefknot development list. That seems to me to be the right place for such conversation, so I'd like to take any followon conversation over there...

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