CalConnect has announced special reduced registration fees for some participants in the upcoming CalConnect XXII event, hosted by Kerio Technologies in Prague, Czech Republic on October 3-7, 2011. The special rates are:
This post could also be titled “Doing Something about Timezones”. The biggest problem (from CalConnect’s perspective) with the change in 2007 to Extended Daylight Savings Time was the widespread problems with updating (or failing to update) several hundred million desktop systems, servers, and so forth with the new start/stop dates for DST in the U.S.. The results were widespread and messy; just in calendaring, many thousands of scheduled events were off by an hour across people’s calendars.
At Roundtable XXI last week at NASA Ames, Charlie Sobek, the Kepler Mission Deputy Project Manager, gave us a presentation on the Kepler Mission to find habitable planets. The presentation highlighted the scheduling and mission optimization issues facing the project, including issues such as scheduling time between multiple projects on the Deep Space Network and the challenges of managing the spacecraft over a multi-year mission, such as changes in the networks, missions and priorities and how these are resolved.
The next CalConnect event will be held the week of October 3-7, 2011, in Prague, Czech Republic, hosted by Kerio Technologies. This will be the first full CalConnect week held outside North America.
To allow for additional time for planning and arranging for international flights, we have opened registration for this meeting early. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect22.shtml for more information including hotel booking which is also available.
CalConnect will hold an open Workshop on Tasks on Wednesday afternoon, 25 May, at NASA Ames, Mountain View, California.
Background:
Only four weeks until CalConnect XXI, the week of May 23-27, 2011, at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. If you are planning to come, you should get your registration done by May 6th as the early registration rate ends on that day, and registration will change from $350 to $395 for the Roundtable. We’re also going to be holding a workshop on Tasks on Wednesday afternoon the 25th, and of course our interoperability test event on Monday-Wednesday.
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXI, May 23-27, 2011, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect21.shtml for logistics and registration information.
As usual, we will be conducting an Interoperability Test Event Monday-Wednesday, May 23-25. Information about the Test Event is at http://www.calconnect.org/iop1105.shtml. The Roundtable Members’ Meeting will be Wednesday-Friday May 25-27.
We are delighted to announce that The Omni Group has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Visit their website at http://www.omnigroup.com.
CalConnect and TC USECASE have published Version 2 of the Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms. This is a major revision of the first version, originally published in 2006, and includes over 75 terms used in calendaring and scheduling today. External references to relevant standards and specifications are included in the online version.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Shel Waggener (http://technology.berkeley.edu/cio/biography.html) addressed the CalConnect Roundtable XX attendees as part of the group’s tradition of having the host organization supply an overview of calendaring issues that are important to it.