Current Events

The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published a new CalConnect proposal, Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar. The proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft. 

CalConnect holds three IOP test events and Roundtables (members’ meeting) each year, and last week it was hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. The interoperability test event featured two mobile CalDAV calendars, one from Andrew McMillan for Android (aCal) and one from Nokia, plus a new Project Management tool from The Omni Group, OmniPlan, implemented as a CalDAV client.

Even if your organization is not currently a member of CalConnect, our upcoming event, CalConnect XX, in February is a perfect opportunity to learn more about CalConnect, and our activities, first hand. As the Bay Area is local to many of you, attending these events, hosted this time at UC Berkeley, would be very convenient.

Registration is now open for CalConnect XX, February 7-11, 2011, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley California. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect20.shtml for logistics and registration information for the Roundtable and for the Interoperability Test Events.

A recent (October 25th) post in the CalendarReview blog, “Online calendaring and online booking”, discusses connecting user-based interfaces (such as ‘shopfronts’, customer-to-business incarnations, and the not yet pervasive “appointment search engines”) and booking or calendaring systems, to provide for generalized booking for medical appointments, tennis courts, auto repair, etc.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes TimeTrade Systems as a member of the consortium.  

A brief report on Roundtable XIX has been posted to the CalConnect website.  

CalConnect XIX is underway at IBM/Lotus in Littleton, MA. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday morning are the interoperability test event; Wednesday-Friday will be Roundtable XIX. Our thanks to IBM/Lotus for hosting this event.

Newspapers looking to enhance communications with their customers and draw more readers to their advertisers are using a new Internet-based calendar communications network as a solution to event publishing and information sharing. dotCal.com (dotCal) is working with many community newspapers to enhance marketing and communication strategies for local meetings, restaurant openings, special events, and other time-sensitive information.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Tungle Corp. as a member of the Consortium.