Portland State has something called LibRooms that's got a pretty slick
front-end, though I can't speak to back-end features:
https://github.com/pdxlibrary/librooms

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jason Griffey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Take a look at Booked, formerly PHPScheduleIt:
>
>
> http://www.bookedscheduler.com
>
> They push the hosted option, but it is an open source project.
>
> Jason
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:52 PM lbspodic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > We use MRBS extensively, for managing about 60 rooms and have been quite
> > happy with it for years.
> >
> > When we first began using it we needed to heavily customize it. In more
> > recent years development of the software has been quite active and almost
> > all our customizations are now available in the main core.
> >
> > We have groups of rooms which are fully unmediated (subject to set rules)
> > with other rooms requiring staff booking. MRSB has capacity for
> provisional
> > booking subject to approval, etc, although we are not using that function
> > at the moment.
> >
> > IIRC it is flexible in back end database selection, and I don't recall
> > encountering much outdated/deprecated functions, although we don't run it
> > in the most advanced server in the world :)
> >
> > - Edward Spodick, HK Univ of Science & Technology Library,
> [log in to unmask]
> >
> > - - - - -
> > Sent from my iPhone - please forgive any wierd spelling errors.
> >
> > On 5 Apr, 2015, at 7:10 AM, Dominic Bordelon <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we are looking for an open-source solution to manage scheduling for our
> > meeting rooms, including a way for patrons to reserve the rooms (with
> staff
> > approval). We are happy to modify something to fit our exact needs if it
> is
> > already solid. We've been trying to work with the vendor Evanced for
> their
> > Spaces product, but we have been disappointed by the lack of
> > customizability and the black box problem.
> > >
> > > I'm aware of OpenRoom and MRBS, and searching the c4l archives I've
> > found discussion on this topic, but that thread was from nearly three
> years
> > ago. What are people using nowadays?
> > >
> > > I like OpenRoom's apparent simplicity, and that its feature set is
> > nearly exactly all we need. However, my concerns with it are the use of
> > php's mysql_* functions, which have been deprecated in favor of mysqli;
> and
> > the many notices/errors it shows when I've run it on a test server. (The
> > installation guide seems to anticipate this: "If you are experiencing
> > problems with OpenRoom such as being unable to log in, modules (such as
> the
> > calendar or day view) not loading, or random warnings or notices
> appearing
> > on pages, until the code has been corrected to fix these issues, you may
> > want to try suppressing notices and warnings by modifying your php.ini
> file
> > in your PHP installation, and restarting PHP." But that provides scarce
> > comfort.) Also, I can see recent patches on Sourceforge, but the forum
> > there seems basically dead.
> > >
> > > I'm also looking at MRBS, but haven't installed it yet or formed a
> clear
> > opinion. I'm interested to hear others' thoughts, and whether there is a
> > good solution out there I haven't heard about yet.
> > >
> > > P.S. Hat tips to Matt Sherman for suggesting OpenRoom, and Peter Murray
> > of Lyrasis for doing a free webinar about FOSS4Lib, which led me to MRBS.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Dominic
> > >
> > >
> > > Dominic Bordelon
> > > Librarian I
> > > Computer Services
> > > East Baton Rouge Parish Library - www.ebrpl.com
> > > (225) 231-3720
> >
>