[Design] Historical look at Scooby project and goals

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Folks,

Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> For (2), Scooby is the only service I've seen that aims not be (only) an
> open standards *server* (e.g. Eventful may be a CalDAV server and can
> certainly serve ICS files over HTTP) but also an open standards
> *client*, consuming information from other server sources.  This is
> important because it will allow Scooby users to pull together calendar
> information from more than one system as long as the source of the
> information supports some format that Scooby client code understands. 
> E.g. let's say my own calendar data is hosted by OSAF, as is my Scooby
> instance.  To begin with my view of the world through Scooby would have
> only my own calendar and perhaps some OSAF calendars.  But I could
> quickly add calendars of my Mozilla colleagues who use Sunbird, my
> university colleagues who use Bedework, and other colleagues too.

This is an important use case.  I don't think Scooby is unique in
offering it, I believe that CalendarHub has this feature (but notably,
not (1), user control of data).

http://www.calendarhub.com/

Sincerely,
Jeffrey