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CalConnect XXV -- October 1-5 2012 -- Google, Zürich, SwitzerlandCalConnect Interoperability Test Event - 1-3 October
Current to 25 September 2012 |
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CalConnect XXV, consisting of a CalConnect Interoperability Test Event, and a CalConnect Roundtable Technical Conference, will be held in Zürich, Switzerland, hosted by Google.
The Interoperability Test Event will take place all day Monday and Tuesday October 1-2, and Wednesday morning October 3, ending at noon. The Roundtable will begin with lunch at 12:00 on Wednesday the 3rd, and last through Friday afternoon the 7th.
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CalConnect Interoperability Test Event:
At this meeting, we plan to offer both regular and mobile interoperabilty testing at the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event.
A participating organization may register for either or both events in a single regisstration, but should be aware that they may
require additional individuals to participate in both events (they will take
place in parallel).
The Interoperability Test Event is open to both members and non-members as participants or as observers; please see CalConnect Interoperability Test Event October 2012 for current information. Check back periodically as this will be updated as more information becomes available. You do not need finished or polished code to participate in the IOP testing; in fact as soon as you have something working at all, testing against other participants can help debugging and code development, especially in identifying red herrings and wrong decisions. Roundtable Technical Conference: The Roundtable Technical Conference will offer Technical Committee sessions, to which all members and observers are welcome, informal BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), plus additional sessions and committee meetings. In addition, workshops/symposia will be offered on Thursday and Friday mornings (more detailed information as we get closer to October). Friday afternoon's final sessions will be the Technical Committee wrap-up and the full Plenary meeting of the Consortium, open to all participants. This session will include report-outs from all Technical Committees, and establishment of future goals and directions for the Consortium. |
Registration:
Please see Registration and Payment Options to choose your registration type and payment option for the Roundtable and/or the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event. Note that you must register separately for the Roundtable and for the Test Event.Special Registration Fees: For CalConnect XXV, the registration fee for first-time-attendees from non-members is a single fee of $350 which covers one participant in either the Interoperability Test Event, the Roundtable Technical Conference, or both. You must execute separate registration forms to attend both the Roundtable and the Interoperability Test Event but the single fee applies.
Location:
The venue for CalConnect week will be at Google's Zurich campus, located at Brandschenkestrasse 110, 8002 Zürich. Here is a map showing the location of Google's campus, the nearby train station "Enge" and the hotels: http://goo.gl/oerbd. Impressions of the Google Campus in Zurich: http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/zurich/. Zurich, the city: http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/zurich.html.Transportation:
Zürich is served by Zürich International Airport (ZRH). Direct connections are available from most European cities and a number of North American cities.Ground Transportation: From the airport, train S2 goes every 30 mins to station "Enge" (a 30 min ride), from there it's a 10 min walk to Google or the B2 Hotel. Taxis are also available; the fee from the airport to Google is about CHF 40-50 and takes about 25 minutes depending on traffic.
International Visitors
Citizens of the United States do not require a visa to visit Switzerland.For all others, see the Federal Office for Migration FAQ: http://www.bfm.admin.ch/content/bfm/en/home/themen/einreise/faq.html.
In particular, the "Overview of ID and visa provisions according to nationality": http://www.bfm.admin.ch/content/dam/data/migration/rechtsgrundlagen/weisungen_und_kreisschreiben/weisungen_visa/bfm-anh01-liste1_vorschriften-nach-staat-e.pdf
Hotels:
Google has preferential rates available at three nearby hotels. The first one is right next to Google, the other two are a 10 min walk away. CalConnect attendees may use the Google preferred rate (not sure that it's always the lowest rate available). To see the booking codes, member representatives may go to CalConnect XXV preferred hotel booking codes in the members area.If you or your organization is not a CalConnect Member, we will send you the preferred booking codes upon request once you have registered for the event; contact Dave Thewlis.
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All prices quoted below are inclusive of service, most taxes* and VAT, and include breakfast (except for the Seestrasse Apartments)
*May not include city tax of about CHF 2.50 per day. ENGIMATT (Primary hotel for CalConnect attendees) http://www.worldhotels.com/en/Hotel-Engimatt Rates from: CHF 235 B2 BOUTIQUE HOTEL & SPA http://www.synergyhotels.ch/BookNow.asp?pd=www.b2boutiquehotels.com Rates from: CHF 280 FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON SIHLCITY http://www.starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1782 Rates from: CHF 292 There are also many other hotels, short-residence apartments, and so forth a few tram stops away, and even a few about the same distance from Google as the three mentioned above. Here are a couple of walkable options; please note that we don't know anything about them but what is presented on their website. HOTEL St. GEORGES ZÜRICH http://www.hotel-st-georges.ch/ Rates from: CHF 99; CHF 128 for en suite rooms SEESTRASE-APARTMENTS DREI KÖNIGE http://www.seestrasse-apartments.ch/ Self-catering apartments; Rates from: CHF 133.50 |
Schedule:
As noted above all events for the week will be at the Google campus. Please note that the IOP Test Events begin at 0830 Monday morning and run all day Monday and Tuesday, plus Wednesday morning through noon. The Roundtable begins with lunch on Wednesday and runs through Friday afternoon. Roundtable Technical Committee sessions will be held in the afternoon to facilitate remote participation; symposia and workshops may be held Thursday and Friday mornings.At this time the schedule is preliminary and there may be changes in when specific sessions occur.
A downloadable iCalendar.ics file with the entire schedule is available at CalConnectConference.ics, or you may subscribe to the calendar at Subscribe to CalConnect Conference Schedule.
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Monday 1 October 0830-1000 Interop Testing 1000-1030 Break and Refreshments 1030-1200 Interop Testing 1200-1300 Lunch 1300-1530 Interop Testing 1530-1600 Break and Refreshments 1600-1800 Interop Testing 2000-2200 IOP Test Dinner Zueghauskeller |
Tuesday 2 October 0830-1000 Interop Testing 1000-1030 Break and Refreshments 1030-1200 Interop TestingTesting 1200-1300 Lunch 1300-1530 Interop Testing 1530-1600 Break and Refreshments 1600-1800 Interop Testing |
Wednesday 3 October 0830-1000 Interop Testing 1000-1030 Break and Refreshments 1030-1130 Interop Testing 1130-1200 Wrap-up 1200 End of IOP Testing 1200-1300 Lunch1 |
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Wednesday 3 October 1200-1300 Lunch1 1300-1345 Opening/Introduction 1345-1400 TC IOPTEST reports 1400-1530 TC CALDAV 1530-1600 Break and Refreshments 1600-1700 TC ISCHEDULE 1700-1800 TC AUTODISCOVERY 1800-2000 Welcome Reception2 At Google |
Thursday 4 October 0830-1000 Improving the web calendaring experience for end users 1000-1030 Break and Refreshments 1030-1200 Calendaring Futures and CalConnect directions 1200-1300 Lunch 1300-1430 Host Session: Google 1430-1530 TC TIMEZONE 1530-1600 Break and Refreshments 1600-1700 BOF: VTODO Status and Requirements 1700-1800 TC EVENTPUB 1930-2200 Group Dinner3 Restaurant eCHo |
Friday 5 October 0830-1000 Internationalization/Localization for calendaring data 1000-1030 Break and Refreshments 1030-1200 Best practices for publishing iCalendar data to ensure optimum interoperability 1200-1300 Lunch 1300-1430 TC XML 1430-1530 TC FREEBUSY 1530-1600 Break and Refreshments 1600-1700 TC RESOURCE 1700-1730 TC Wrapup 1730-1800 CalConnect Plenary 1800 Close of Meeting |
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1The Wednesday lunch is for all participants in the IOP Test Event and/or Roundtable 2All Roundtable and IOP Test Event participants are invited to the Wednesday evening reception 3All Roundtable participants are invited to the group dinner on Thursday Lunch and morning and afternoon breaks will be served to all participants in the Roundtable and the IOP test events and are included in your registration fees. Breakfast is included with your hotel booking. |
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Topical Agendas:
Please see CalConnect XXV Symposia for more information about the Thursday and Friday morning symposia.|
TC AUTODISCOVERY Wed 1700-1800 1. Introduction 1.1 Problem Statement 2. Presentation of draft specification 2.1 Alternatives not chosen and why 3. Discussion and feedback 4. Next steps TC CALDAV Wed 1400-1530 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. Progress and Status Update 2.1 IETF 2.2 CalConnect 3. Open Discussions 3.1 Managed Attachments 3.2 Calendar Sharing & Notifications 3.3 Use of the Prefer header in CalDAV 3.4 Calendar Searching 4. Moving Forward 4.1 Plan of Action 4.2 Next Conference Call TC EVENTPUB Thu 1700-1800 1. Charter 2. Work and accomlishments 3. New calendar properties 3.1 STYLED-DESCRIPTION (Rich Text) 3.2 PARTICIPANT 3.3 STRUCTURED-LOCATION 4. Going Forward - next steps TC FREEBUSY Fri 1430-1530 1 Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary of Work 2. Introduction to VPOLL including demo 3. Open issues discussion 4. Next steps 5. Next calls TC IOPTEST Wed 1345-1400 Review of IOP test participant findings |
TC iSCHEDULE Wed 1600-1700 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. Open Discussions 2.1 HTTP based public key management 2.2 Public key manage by private agreement 2.3 iSchedule interop: lessons learned 3. Moving Forward 3.1 Plan of Action 3.2 Next Conference Calls TC RESOURCE Fri 1600-1700 1. Introduction 1.1 TC Charter 1.2 Accomplishments 2 Since the last Roundtable 2.1 Resource schema draft updates 2.2 Resource vCard discussion 3. Open Discussions 3.1 Resource scheduling implementations today 3.2 Possible DAV extensions for easier and standardized Resource scheduling 4. Future of TC 4.1 Next conference calls TC TIMEZONE Thu 1430-1530 1. Introduction: 1.1 Charter 1.2 Background to the work 2. Timezone Service Specification 3. Timezones by reference in CalDAV 4. Timezone Registries 5. Next steps VTODO Status and Requirements Thu 1600-1700 1. VTODO Status 2. Summary of Workshops 3. Open discussion on requirements 4. Next steps 5. Call for participation TC XML Fri 1300-1430 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary of work 2. Status of xCal (iCalendar in XML( 3. Status of CalWS REST and SOAP and WS-Calendar 4. jCal (iCalendar in JSON) including library demo 5. Moving Forward 5.1 Plan of action 5.2 Next conference calls |
Scheduled BOFs
Requests for BOF sessions can be made at the Wednesday opening and known BOFs will be scheduled at that time. However spontaneous BOF sessions are welcome to be called at BOF session time during the Roundtable.| CalConnectSM is a Service Mark of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. | Copyright © 2013 The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Copyright and Licensing Information |