I'm a long time shared calendar person. In fact at this point I think I'd die if I didn't have my calendar available. People always laugh when they see my calendar on my computer because of the many blocks and many colors. Almost always, they ask "Is that your work calendar?" and I reply "Nope! Just life in general."
In my life, I have my gmail account which I pretty much use for calendaring and my personal email. I seem to be getting more and more invites to my personal email but I MUST have those on my gmail calendar. Fortunately, in Lightning (the Thunderbird calendar) there is a way!
One of the big puzzle pieces is that you need to add a plugin in order to two-way sync with Google. This plugin can be found here: provider-for-google-calendar. Once you install that it's as simple as File, New, Calendar, Google, your gmail account, selecting your calendars and you now have your Google calendars in your Thunderbird.
Stay tuned for how to ACCEPT an invite to your personal email into your Google calendar.
