What I am leaning towards is a combination now. It seems that it would be useful to have full messaging functionality on calendar events (discussion, attachments, etc.) and you could use everything in the regular boards for that. So, a post to the calendar would just be another message, and an entry into the Events table as well that mainly works with recurring entries.
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