Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative:

I've also just directly asked them on Twitter here and invited them to chime into this thread:
https://twitter.com/jdaviescoates/status/1615088837520228370

Just for completeness, here is the response I received:

https://twitter.com/peer_rich/status/1615298951510429696

[3699n]

@nebulon Amazing! Thank you!!

[marcusquinn]

Not as easy as first hoped for packaging. In the meantime, here's a reasonable and free Wordpress plugin that offers a subset of this kind of feature:

• https://wpcal.io/

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn I'm happily using the hosted cal.com service myself.

It's pretty much the only service like this that integrates with self-hosted caldav calendars.

[jdaviescoates]

2.8 is out:

https://cal.com/blog/v-2-8

Not only that, but there is now also a $100 bounty on packaging it for Cloudron!

https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3026#issuecomment-1509352147

[roofboard]

@jdaviescoates
get that bounty up to 1000 and I will spend another week on it and it will be done. -- Already half way there.

[jdaviescoates]

@roofboard it's nothing to do with me

[marcusquinn]

Looks like there's a Pull Request related to the bounty on this:

• https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3026
• https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/pull/8561

Give it your emoji support

[dev-cb]

What can we do to get this rolling? Since cal.com is now also working with SOGo quite well (it wasn’t at all for quite a while) I hope that there is some movement in the package development

[girish]

@dev-cb The last we checked this was not so easy to selfhost. But now, it seems, they moved to a monorepo and atleast the instructions seem quite simple. Time to give this another try...

[marcusquinn]

Seems they are generally supportive of it being on Cloudron, in at least making it compatible, I think the rest is our side of the packaging job.

[dev-cb]

@girish said in Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative:

Time to give this another try...

Thanks for the response and your will to give it fresh start!

[sparkwise]

While these two relevant issues (https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3026 and https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/6780) remain open, it looks like a PR was merged and released in 2.9.5 a few weeks ago that addressed both of these: "feat: Make database optional when building" (https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/pull/8561)

[ajtatum]

Honestly, not having this and the lack of new apps for businesses was the reason I didn't renew my subscription. Cloudron is definitely the easiest solution to work with, but for $150 a year I anticipated more apps being released over the past year.

[marcusquinn]

@ajtatum There's no lack of willing to package apps, the issues more come from the apps themselves having difficulties in working with a locked-down Docker setup, and the author's don't have to make their apps compatible if they prefer to use unusual stack setups.

Sure you can package them in vanilla Docker, but then you have all the maintenance and debugging that app store managed apps have done for you.

FWIW, if you didn't already look, Easy Appointments is already available:

• https://easyappointments.org/

And these are free Wordpress plugins options:

• wordpress.org/plugins/wpcal/
• wordpress.org/plugins/vikappointments/

Cal.com does look great, and I've seen the 95% of work done on it to attempt to make is Cloudron-easy as an app store app, but sometimes that last 5% is many times more work, and then author negotiation, than the 95% part.

I guess that's the thing about open-source, no-one is entitled to anything, it's always going to be a best effort at the time offering.

If you want guarantees, then you can always subscribe to cal.com directly, and influence their development directly.

I think the expectation that Cloudron fixes every apps inadequacies to package and maintain and make easy for all, is always going to need some pragmatism.

As they say, you can pay with your money, or with your time, at least you have that freedom of choice and voice here.

[potemkin_ai]

@ajtatum if you don’t mind me asking - what is an alternative for ~11$/month?

[3699n]

@sparkwise Doesn't the PR you linked resolve the issues that have previously been blocking the packaging as a Cloudron app? Would it be possible for you to take another look @girish ? Cal.com would still be a killer app to have on the platform.

[girish]

@3699n yes, I think it's worthwhile re-investigating the current situation with selfhosting cal.com . Added to our internal list.

[chetbaker]

@girish said in Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative:

@3699n yes, I think it's worthwhile re-investigating the current situation with selfhosting cal.com . Added to our internal list.

This is the best news I've read this week.

[Lanhild]

@girish said in Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative:

@3699n yes, I think it's worthwhile re-investigating the current situation with selfhosting cal.com . Added to our internal list.

FYI, I am as of yesterday attempting to package cal.com for Cloudron, so far, the project dependencies installation and building is working. I am currently looking over the startup part of cal.com, and might be able to provide a working package or, at the least, a good starting point.