Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Exploring meal and common space scheduling options

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Joan Helfman <joanhelfman [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi cohosing community,
>> 
>> At Cambridge Cohousing, we’re exploring ways to make signing up for meals
>> and reserving common spaces 

We have complicated room and parking reservations — several rooms in the CH 
plus 2 guestrooms and 4-5 parking spaces whose owners don’t have cars. We also 
use it for birthdays, team meetings, people traveling, meals, etc.

We use CalendarWiz and it works very well. We have a “category calendar” for 
each space and kind of event, so they can each be viewed independently or all 
together. For example, if you want to know when GuestRoom A is available, you 
can see just room A. If you want both of them at the same time, you can view A 
& B. The same for other rooms. There are settings for repeating events, rooms 
where reservations can’t overlap, etc. Color coded. A lot of options.

Events can be downloaded and printed. They can also be downloaded to personal 
calendars. I have it on my desktop.

It’s a full featured calendar with good support. You get what you pay for. 
We’ve used it for years.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org