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Quote from the DAVdroid project:

Address books, calendars and task list contain private and sensitive data by their nature. We believe that individuals and companies should be able to be in full control of their own data. This means the freedom to choose where and how the data are stored, and freedom in choice of software. CalDAV/CardDAV are open protocols and thus can be used with various server and client software.

Setting up your own CalDAV + CardDAV server such as Radicale is easy. Chances are if you are reading HN, you can do it yourself. Do it.

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I recently upgraded from Radicale 0.10 to 2.x. One of their migration scripts didn't work correctly for the calendar, but since I was in control of the data, I could just look at the ics file, see what they were doing, and write a small python script to do it myself.

If anyone wants to do it in Docker, I have a really simple Dockerfile here:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radic...

Recently switched to Radicale, and it is pretty much setup-once-and-forget. Highly recommended. I'm using the tomsquest/docker-radicale image, if anyone else wants to set it up.

Like many google skeptics I moved to Fastmail. Fastmail have accounts and calendar that you can access over CalDav and CardDav with DAVdroid, which is exactly what I do.

Can you recommend any good webGUIs when running my own CalDAV server? I'm struggling to find one and I really need one.

I've found infcloud [0] to be decent.

It's a bit messy to set up but the config file is extensively documented and you generally only need to touch it in the initial setup.

[0]: https://www.inf-it.com/open-source/clients/infcloud/

For CalDAV: http://agendav.org/ is much prettier than infCloud, but actually has it's own php-backend and mysql database. A bit heavier and is not strictly only-CalDAV. Could be a viable solution though.

For CardDAV: https://github.com/owncloud/contacts could be used as a frontend, since it advertises it's talking to CardDAV-backend, but it's not actually deployable as a standalone interface. It's better than infCloud both architecture-wise and UI-wise, and could be the best opensource solution available, if you're willing to adapt this frontend to stand-alone usage (or integrate into whatever you need it for)

Nextcloud works for me

Seconded. I did this myself a few months ago and it is not hard at all.

I used to feel sufficiently uncomfortable about handing reams of personal data to Google that it stopped me using calendar services on my phone - so it's actually made an appreciable difference to my life.

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