Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: Web or e-tools for booking instrument time

2011-02-28 Thread Dmitry Veprintsev
Hi All, I have used MRBS http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/ to manage booking of a large number of instruments for a few years. Free, open source, simple, local installation, works very well. regards, Dmitry -- Dr. Dmitry Veprintsev Biomolecular Research Laboratory, OFLC/103 Paul Scherrer Institut

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: Web or e-tools for booking instrument time

2011-02-25 Thread Joel Guenther
Hi, all. Quartzy (http://www.quartzy.com/) is free social-networking web application for scientists that as a module for managing facilities and equipment. It looks pretty good, but I haven't used it personally. -Joel On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Klaus Fütterer wrote: > We use Google Ca

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: Web or e-tools for booking instrument time

2011-02-16 Thread Klaus Fütterer
We use Google Calendar for booking our X-ray facility. Klaus === Klaus Fütterer, Ph.D. Reader in Structural Biology Undergraduate Admissions School of Biosciences

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: Web or e-tools for booking instrument time

2011-02-16 Thread Nikos Pinotsis
Hi Darren, Sunbird from mozilla is accessible in any computer running linux and windows connected to the home network (I guess it should be compatible with other OS systems as well) and it's free. The problem is that it's getting slow depending how many instruments you have for booking. To a

[ccp4bb] Off Topic: Web or e-tools for booking instrument time

2011-02-16 Thread Darren Hart
Hello, Since we are now part of the "Facebook Generation" (or at least 10% of the planet is), it seems there must be a better way of distributing time on our various Aktas to an institute of scientists than our current system which involves a race for the paper booking sheet every Thursday morning.