Google Calendar component of LSNC Google API Project posted
The LSNC Google API Project has posted its first code iteration, an integration of Google Calendar with the Pika CMS. This first iteration includes basic installation instructions for implementing the integration. You can expect additional code iterations over the next several months as we roll out code integrations with Gmail, Google Docs and Google Groups.
LSNC’s development partner on this project is Michael Cizmar and his team at Chicago-based MC+A. This morning, MC+A issued a press release announcing the release of this first component. (MC+A was also our partner on The Findability Project.)
With the public launch of the project, I will begin to post here regularly about the project and detail more about how LSNC is implementing these integrations. You’re gonna like this, people!
Legal Services of Northern Michigan has been using the Google calendar for about 1.5 years and the only existing issue I have is that there is no way to enter an event, form a lap-top, and have it sync-up when back on-line. I know it can be done from phone apps and PDA’s but extensive search has failed to reveal a lap-top program. We have integrated the Calendar with Thunderbird.
Ken, from the email message you sent me earlier on the LStech list, I assume your concern here is with synchronization of offline Google Calendar from a laptop. Google has dropped development of Gears, the code basis for its initial forays into offline storage with Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar. Google has announced plans to re-establish offline storage options for Google Apps content — initially with Google Docs – based on HTML5 web storage functions. We’ll all have to wait to see whether those HTML5 options, once implemented by Google, address the synchronization issue you raise.