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Welcome to CalConnect
Welcome to CalConnectSM, The Calendaring and Scheduling
Consortium. The Consortium is focused on the interoperable
exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs,
platforms, and technologies. The Consortium's mission is to promote general
understanding of and provide mechanisms to allow interoperable calendaring and scheduling
methodologies, tools and applications to enter the mainstream of computing.
Coming Next:
CalConnect XXIII – Roundtable Technical Conference and Interoperability
Test Event, January 30 - February 3, 2012, hosted by Apple Inc.
in Cupertino CA. Members and non-Members are welcome at the IOP Test Events; Non-members may attend the Roundtable as
Observers.
CalConnect Highlights:
- 07-Nov-2011 CalConnect Minutes #12: The most recent
issue of the CalConnect Minutes newsletter, covering Roundtable XXII,
has been published.
- 13-Oct-2011 CalConnect XXIII host confirmed: Apple Inc. have confirmed they will host
CalConnect XXIII on January 30 - Feburary 3 2012 at their headquarters in Cupertino, California.
- 10-Aug-2011 CalConnect Artifacts Repository:
CalConnect has established a code artifacts repository as a place to publish code artifacts such as schema. The first
schema set published is the iCalendar in XML Schema (xCal) developed with and in support of the OASIS WS-Calendar
effort.
- 08-Aug-2011 xCal (iCalendar in XML) published as RFC:
The IETF has published XCal, the iCalendar in XML specification, as an RFC. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6321. Congratulations to the authors and to TC-XML for their hard work.
- 20-Jun-2011 CalConnect Minutes #11: The most recent
issue of the CalConnect Minutes newsletter, covering Roundtable XXI,
has been published.
- 17-Jun-2011 CalConnect announces special registration fees for CalConnect XXII:
For CalConnect XXII, special reduced registration fees will be in effect for non-members for
the Interoperability Test Event and the Roundtables. A special registration fee will also be
in effect for members who are not calendaring vendors. Please see
CalConnect XXII for more information.
- 02-Jun-2011 CalConnect XXI Host Presentation:
The host presentation at CalConnect XXI by NASA Ames was on
Schedule Optimization and finding habitable planets: The Kepler Mission. The presentation is
posted on our website and linked from the blog entry referenced above.
- 02-Jun-2011 CalConnect XXI Timezone by Reference Testing:
During the Interoperability Test Event at CalConnect XXI last week, we did initial testing of implementations
of the Timezone Service Protocol and timezones by reference. See our blog post CalConnect XXI: Timezones by Reference.
- 18-May-2011 CalConnect adopts Creative Commons and Apache Licenses:
CalConnect will now publish new and updated documents and other material under a Creative Commons license or,
for code artifacts such as schemas, the Apache 2 License, replacing its prior terms of document
availability. The intent is to make it as easy as possible for CalConnect material to be used,
by publishing under standard and universal license terms. Please see
Copyright and Licensing for Published Material for more information.
- 18-May-2011 Index to Calendaring and Scheduling Standards:
CalConnect has published a major revision and update to its Index to Calendaring and Scheduling Standards.
This page provides links, titles, and very brief abstracts of Calendaring and Calendaring-related
standards, specifications, and guides. CalConnect intends to keep this page as up-to-date as possible and
welcomes corrections and suggestions for updates.
- 29-Mar-2011 The Omni Group Joins CalConnect:
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes
The Omni Group as a member of the Consortium.
- 24-Feb-2011 CalConnect Minutes #10: The most recent
issue of the CalConnect Minutes newsletter, covering Roundtable XX,
has been published.
- 23-Feb-2011 Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms, Version 2:
TC USECASE has published the new version of the Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms. Originally published
in 2006, this is the first revision of the document and is a major update.
- 17-Feb-2011
Calendaring in a Public University: A summary of the presentation at Roundtable XX from Shel Waggener, the
CIO of the University of California, Berkeley, with a link to the presentation itself.
- 16-Feb-2011 Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar: The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published
a new proposal, Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar.
This proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft.
- 16-Feb-2011
CalConnect XX a great success: A quick report on highlights of CalConnect XX February 7-11, 2011
at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 26-Jan-2011 The World of Calendaring: Several blog posts by our President, Gary Schwartz, discussing
aspects of calendaring, have been posted on the CalConnect Blog.
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