[kronolith] Free Busy App

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Mike Cochrane <mike at graftonhall.co.nz>:

> Should I follow the lead of Outlook and add another field to Turba for
> storing a users freebusy URL?

Sounds good to me...

> Or would an abstacted search system suit people better? This could
> search, admin configurable, sources of vFreebusy information such as local 
> or remote locations
> (file://, ftp://, http://) or freebusy server like
> freebusy.office.microsoft.com
> to locate the freebusy info for an email address.

Are these necessarily exclusive? I'd like to have both.

> Should vFreebusy replys (you send a request and they replay with a
> private freebusy info for you only) be stored in the turba contact for the
> sender, or stored in the personal preferences of app?

I don't quite follow you - what's being stored here?

> What applications should this be compatible with?

In terms of... Horde apps? Other ones? It'd be great if it worked with Palm
events, Outlook, Ximian, etc...

> To see where it's at:
>   To get an idea of the UI, have a look at
>   http://webmail.graftonhall.co.nz/horde/freebusy/freebusy.php

Looks great - looking forward to it!

> And the all important thing, what to call this app :-) Anyone got an Ikea
> or similarly weird and appropriate name?

I'm blanking right now...

-chuck

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