From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40904 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: X-mas wish: VCAL? Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:28:48 -0500 Organization: Kippona Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87r8prw7nz.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> References: Reply-To: Chris Beggy NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176387 3435 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:59:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25444 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2001 15:29:40 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 2001 15:29:40 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Giek-0006u1-00; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:29:18 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:29:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA14055 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:28:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 25416 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2001 15:28:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25411 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2001 15:28:55 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (root@207.8.195.148) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Dec 2001 15:28:55 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Kippona) with ESMTP id fBJFSsQM006897 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit/Kippona) id fBJFSs9I006896; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:28:54 -0500 X-Reply-To: Chris Beggy Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Trace: lackawana.kippona.com 1008775729 6888 207.8.195.148 (19 Dec 2001 15:28:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@kippona.com X-gpgkeyid: 0x8060510A X-fingerprint: 6012 F8F8 29B3 67E4 0604 BCD2 F882 88AE 8060 510A Cancel-Lock: sha1:W+2hxkTEsX5Pc15saSzvHg4zcbo= Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40904 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40904 Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes: > I have a lot of people around me who really like Gnus and Emacs. The only > thing now which prevents from moving them to E/G is, that they use > Outlook's calendar via e-mail (VCAL). Is there anyone who is willing to > write VCAL parser as an frontend to GNU Emacs Calendar/diary or something > similar? Could you explain what happens here? Is it something like: Central Organization Calendar Running on Outlook | | newly entered calendar entries are sent out to Pavel Janik on 12/20 in VCAL format | | Pavel Janik opens his VCAL email in Outlook, and authorizes the entries to be entered into his local Outlook calendar | | Pavel Janik makes calendar entries in his local calendar, which are sent out to the Central Organization calendar as VCAL email. How is VCAL different from iCal, which I think was a Netscape calendaring standard? Is there a GPL calendaring standard, maybe from phpgroupware, which Emacs can support? That way, the problem becomes a VCAL to gnuCAL translator. The advantage of this is that people can continue to communicate and share calendars in gnuCAL during the times when MS periodically breaks VCAL. On the other hand, maybe Emacs calendar is the standard and a straight VCAL translator/generator is all that's needed. Chris