Radicale/pages/home.rst

==========================
 A Simple Calendar Server
==========================

Presentation
============

The Radicale Project is a complete CalDAV calendar server solution. It can
store multiple calendars.

Calendars are available from both local and distant accesses, possibly limited
through authentication policies. They can be viewed and edited by calendar
clients on mobile phones or computers.


Technical Description
=====================

Radicale aims to be a light solution, easy to use, easy to install, easy to
configure. As a consequence, it requires few software dependencies and is
pre-configured to work out-of-the-box.

Radicale runs on most of the UNIX-like platforms (Linux, \*BSD, MacOS X) and
Windows. It is free and open-source software, written in Python, released under
GPL version 3.


Main Features
=============

- Shares calendars through CalDAV and HTTP
- Supports events, todos and journal entries
- Works out-of-the-box, no installation nor configuration required
- Warns users on concurrent edition
- Limits access by authentication
- Secures connections


Supported Clients
=================

Radicale supports the latest versions of:

- `Mozilla Lightning <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/>`_
- `GNOME Evolution <http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/>`_
- `KDE KOrganizer <http://userbase.kde.org/KOrganizer/>`_
- `aCal <http://wiki.acal.me/wiki/Main_Page>`_ and `CalDAV-Sync
  <https://market.android.com/details?id=org.dmfs.caldav.lib>`_
  for `Google Android <http://www.android.com/>`_
- `Apple iPhone <http://www.apple.com/iphone/>`_
- `Apple iCal <http://www.apple.com/macosx/apps/>`_