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Go for the royal 'we' here, since this won't always be a one-person project.

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include("inc/page-header.php");
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<h1>Background</h1>
<p>The CalDAV specification has been under development for a few years now, and at the same time I
have seen increasing pressure from clients to provide a solution to their shared calendaring problems.
<p>The CalDAV specification has been under development for a few years now, and at the same time we
have seen increasing pressure from people and organisations in the open source world to provide a
solution to their shared calendaring problems.
</p>
<p>In evaluating the possibilities for shared calendaring, there are a number of possible approaches, but
I have elected to follow the path of implementing CalDAV because I believe it is a good specification
we have elected to follow the path of implementing CalDAV because we believe it is a good specification
and that it will in due course gain client implementations and provide the richest user
experience through those client implementations.</p>
<h1>Goals</h1>
<p>CalDAV is a client-server protocol specific to managing and reporting on <em>collections</em> of <em>calendar resources</em>.</p>
<p>As such, my intentions in developing this application are as follows:</p>
<p>As such, our intentions in developing this application are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Simplicity of Prerequisites</li>
<li>Simplicity of Setup</li>
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</ul>
<h2>Simplicity of Prerequisites</h2>
<p>I have chosen to write this in PHP because I believe that PHP is a widely available web scripting language.</p>
<p>I have chosen to use the Apache web server because it is also widely available. This is not necessarily a requirement,
but I do not have other PHP environments available to me at this time.</p>
<p>I have chosen to use the PostgreSQL database, because it is a free, open-source database, which operates on a very wide set of
<p>We have chosen to write this in PHP because we believe that PHP is a widely available web scripting language.</p>
<p>We have chosen to use the Apache web server because it is also widely available. This is not necessarily a requirement,
but no testing has been undertaken in other PHP environments to date.</p>
<p>We have chosen to use the PostgreSQL database, because it is a free, open-source database, which operates on a very wide set of
operating environments, and which is <em>fully</em> ACID compliant.</p>
<h2>Simplicity of Setup</h2>
<p>I use the <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</a> distribution, so at this stage I have made Debian packages available. If
I find willing people I will make packages available in other forms.</p>
<p>This goal is not expected to be achieved in the first few releases.</p>
<p>For the greatest ease use you should consider installing RSCDS on the <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</a>
distribution from the readily available, signed packages.</p>
<p>We expect to increase the level of automation and simplicity for the Debian target release in particular, although other
distributions might also become easier at the same time. We do expect slightly greater installation complexity in the first
few releases as we come to understand the particular problems people experience.</p>
<h2>Simplicity of Operation</h2>
<p>In general RSCDS should not need significant maintenance to keep it operating.</p>
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<h1>Your Name Here!</h1>
<p>If you are interested in helping, there are several areas where I need help at the moment:</p>
<ul>
<i>
<li>The project needs a better name - feel free to suggest one!</li>
<li>We need more documentation</li>
<li>The graphic and UI design for the web-based administration is teh suck (but it is basically functional :-)</li>
<li>We need more documentation</li>
<li>I need to find more CalDAV-capable calendar clients to interoperate with</li>
<li>We would love you to write about your experiences in the project Wiki.</li>
</ul>
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