I was writing a long update of how I had set up an ownCloud server for hosting my own calendar and contact information. But, then I stumbled onto this blog post from someone who had done essentially the same thing but explained the process much better.

A few differences between his set up and mine: I installed ownCloud on a VirtualBox VM running in tandem with other VMs on a refurbished Win7 system that I use as my home server. I installed Ubuntu Server and then installed ownCloud. I have Apache on that VM running on a unique port which I forwarded through my router. Then I followed the same steps as the Rambling Madman to get the information out of Google and sync’d with Thunderbird on the desktop and my Android devices.

More than a month so far and no issues. (Just jinxed it there.)