When I moved to my new position with Canonical one of the immediately noticeable items was the lack of a collaborative system (never really had a need due to their size). I am used to using a collaboration system of some sort even if they really suck. So I needed to figure out how to bridge a few gaps and be able to use my crackberry with thunderbird and allow my fellow employees to view/share my calendar.
The solution, tie Google Calendar with Thunderbird through Lightning and the Provider for Google Calendar. My first attempt failed because I was missing a library – libstd5++. After adding gcc 3.0 to my system, I had libstd5++ installed. I then added the latest Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar add-on and I was good to go after restarting Thunderbird.
The next step was simply creating a new network-based calendar, choosing Google and adding the private XML URI (from the Google Calendar settings) to Thunderbird, entering my credentials and voila, shared calendar shows in Thunderbird!
Now I can use Google Sync on my crackberry and sync it all together very easily. May seem difficult, but in reality it just required a bit of setup and I can now enjoy the freedom of Thunderbird running on Ubuntu tapping into the wonders of Google Calendar. Need to see what I am doing today, tomorrow or next month? Just ping me and I’m happy to show you!
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