Calendaring tools

[bcholmes]

The guest house where I stay in Haiti asked me to recommend a calendaring / scheduling tool. They have a certain number of beds, and they groups requesting a certain number of beds for a certain number of nights. Plus pick-ups at the airport, and so forth.

Usually groups fill out an (electronic) contact sheet (which it'd be great to attach to the note in the calendar). Mostly, they're using paper to keep this process running, but it's running them ragged.

What are your favourite (free / open source) calendaring tools? Any that sound helpful in this situation? Bonus points for tools that can handle sporadic intertube access.

Comments

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Google calendar is what I've been living & breathing by for a few years now...

[suitablyemoname.livejournal.com]

We use Google Calendar with Mozilla Sunbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/) at work. (I've heard it works in Thunderbird, too, but Sunbird is strictly a calendar app and is usually easier to use.)

If you add the Provider (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US sunbird/addon/4631) add-on, it can draw data from a Google Calendar (and add information to one), but it works just fine in offline mode. (Synchronizing it once the internet returns is one click away.)

The major downside is that there's no Creole translation, but there is a French version. You'd know more than I would there, though.