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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 encountering much outdated/deprecated functions, although we don't run it 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 >