July 06, 2005

Curious George: Remote Calendar App? I'm looking for some kind of easily updatable, customizable, internet-based calendar to help with daily operations of a family-run resort.

Here's the scenario. I work for a little tiny dive shop on a little tiny island in North America. Reservations are made in an office in the states and then faxed over to us here and we hand-write everything into a paper calendar. It works most of the time but when it doesn't work, fans and shit collide in multiple countries. It's not pretty. Now, once upon a time, I came from a place (*cough*bigbostonlawfirm*cough*) where we had much more efficient ways of handling things (*cough*MSExchange*cough*) so this is starting to drive me a little nuts. So I need y'all to help me retain my sanity if you can. Here's what I'm looking for:

  • Easy to setup and maintain: I am by no means a stand-alone network admin but do have background in IT.
  • Easy to operate: think very, very simple. The folks I work with use hotmail for their business email account and were amazed when I showed them what google could do. Don't get me started.
  • Fairly flexible and customizable: our work week starts on a Saturday, so customizable views and categories for guest info.
  • Accessible from multiple locations: internet-based or something I can easily throw on the server that hosts my own personal site.
I was checking out Mozilla Sunbird which looked good but couldn't change the week start day and it was still in Beta stage so wasn't up to full functionality. Any suggestions, Monkeys?