[Discuss] GNU/FOSS alternative to calendly.com

[Rich Braun]

Mayuresh Rajwadkar <m.m.rajwadkar at ieee.org> asked:
> Does anyone here know if there is a self-hosted option to *calendly.com

That site looks like a team scheduler that goes beyond just group calendaring.

You can find group calendar tools in Linux-based FOSS by NextCloud and OX App Suite. It’s limited to caldav sync: users can create a shared calendar and add it to their mobile devices. Any notifications by email are a byproduct of the device’s calendar accept/reject process, not the server, so it’s not at all like a corporate Exchange server.

I publish an OX App Suite image on hub.docker.com to make installation easier; the Nextcloud software includes easy enough installation options that I just run their image, which I use as a personal household calendar (so we all know about one another’s plane trips, including flight numbers, and other upcoming shared events).

I don’t know if the open-source community is going to create such a tool. I’m writing an events manager as a hobby but it’s not open-source.

-rich