Calendar as a Service?

[phansch]

Hey,

this came up when @carolinagc told me about the calendar project and I just wanted to know how far we could take this.

It would be nice to have a service like etherpad.org but for creating calendars. Right now, there's not a lot of web calendars out there, so I think this is something a lot of people would like.

There would be no user login required, to keep things simple for the user.
You could exchange calendars by using a random url. Everyone with access to the url would be able to add, modify and remove events.

[mamhoff]

There's quite a few caldav servers out there, but there's nothing that makes it easy to create a calendar and quickly embed it into their webpage or send links around to the calendar without signing up to Google. That could actually work.

However, I would recommend two URLs: One read-only, one read/write. Most use cases for calendars are that way...