Choosing a calendar server

So I’ve got a few things going on between my home life, my work, and the various boards I serve on. I would never know where I was supposed to be without a decent calendar.

I’ve been using Google Calendar for most of my events and it works well for that. However, I want to keep a separate calendar for the East CAC that members can subscribe to. This can be done through the setting up of a CalDAV, ical, or WCAP-based calendar server.

There are a handful of solutions which implement these to some degree. The problem is many of them have dependencies I’d rather not add. Some are written in Java, some are Zope-based, and one requires adding the PostgreSQL database rather than the MySQL database I use for everything else. Even mod_caldav, an Apache module solution, requires a ton of support packages. I really don’t need a ton of overhead here: something simple is best.

I found one that almost fits the bill called Dingo. It’s a Perl-based CGI solution that stores its events in MySQL. It was simple to set up and was running within minutes. The only problem is that it doesn’t work: no events display in my Lightning 0.9 client though they do appear in Dingo’s webpage. Dingo also hasn’t been updated in a year so I’m concerned it may soon be exploited by hackers.

So, anyone else looked into calendar servers? If so, what did you choose and why?