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nite_monkey:
If your office has google accounts, then you can use  url=http://sites.google.com]sites.google.com[/url]. That way when ever someone leaves, they can update their status where ever they are at.

Deozaan:
Fellow DC Member Allen made his own wiki called Minki. I haven't used it myself, but it might be simple enough for what you need.

nontroppo:
Um, AFAIK, tiddlywiki is not a solution for a collaborative group, it offers shaky multiuser support and the tiddlywiki public wiki itself runs on mediawiki. It is excellent as a personal wiki, but won't work in a group as envisaged by the OP.

I went through this issue and set up a collaborative whiteboard for my group last year. There are thousands of possible solutions! As I have experience setting up a large public wiki (based on Wakkawiki), I went the wiki route, and about the best low-maintainance wiki out there is Dokuwiki:

http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

It uses flat file storage (not annoying databases to set up, just PHP+web server), and works brilliantly in small-medium group settings. It has nice ACL/user setup and is fast and elegant. I use it to allow our group to contribute our shared knowledge easily. You could easily set up a contact/schedule page as you envisage.

If you wanted a much more specialised featureful groupware management system loosely based on a wiki, Tikiwiki is pretty formidable:

http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFeatures

Other groupware software worth looking at:

http://www.simple-groupware.de/cms/Main/Features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_groupware

However, if you don't mind hosting online, GCal would be a super simple thing to set up:

http://www.google.com/calendar/

If all you need is simple present/away tracking. GCal syncs nicely with lots of cross-platform calandar software, which doesn't force everyone to use the same app. A notch higher, perhaps Chandler and a chandler server set up locally would allow open-source and flexible group scheduling?

http://chandlerproject.org/

Chandler looks very nice IMO.

PPLandry:
This seems like a trivial task to do with SQLNotes (I'm the designer). You would have a centrally located database (absolutely no setup required), and each user could update their info. Being a database, you could keep a history (Lets see, who was where on June 15th?)

Information presentation could be within the SQLNotes UI or through ODBC enabled apps like Excel and Access.

Over and above the Agenda / presence tracking, SQLNotes allows more general information management, group sharing and storage (Excel-like numeric data, EverNote-like textual and web content) along with sophiticated reporting (pivot tables and charts). Its outlining capabilities are great for brainstorming (Mindmaps are coming soon). It can be used for project managements with the built-in Gantt charts.

It is automatically multi-user with individual cell locking (not record-level locking), hence, users can modify different aspects of the same item at the same time. All changes are time-stamped and user-stamped. Newest version is portable on XP/Vista, hence does not require installation. Free while in beta (stable). $50 per seat afterwards. www.sqlnotes.net

[edit] As for online wikis, I use http://www.wikispaces.com/ alot and it just works well, always. Wetpaint seems nice too, has a better rich text editor but is a bit more complex to use.[/edit]

nontroppo:
if you want to pay some money for areliable intranet groupware organiser, look no further than backpack from 37signals:

http://www.backpackit.com/

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