Sun has posted an update on their CalDAV client plug-in for the Symbian Operating system on the Symbian blog. See http://blog.symbian.org/2009/10/22/caldav-support-for-symbian-a-contribution-by-sun-microsystems/ for the full text.
CalConnect has posted a short report on Roundtable XVI, held October 7-9 at Apple in Cupertino, CA. The report may be found at Roundtable XVI.
RFC5545, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) has been published by the IETF as a Proposed Standard Protocol. This is the revision to RFC 2445 (iCalendar) which has been underway for some time. RFC5545 obsoletes RFC2445. See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5545.txt. CalConnect congratulates everyone who was involved in progressing this work.
CalConnect XVI, the week of October 5th at Apple in Cupertino, California, is only four weeks away! If you are planning to come to the Roundtable, register before September 15th to take advantage of the early registration price break. And remember, the conference hotel is small, so book your room now before the hotel fills up. Details on the logistics page at CalConnect XVI.
Registration is now open for CalConnect XVI, October 5-9, 2009, at Apple in Cupertino, California. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect16.shtml for logistics and registration information for the Roundtable and for the Interoperability Test Event.
The Conference Hotel will be the Cypress Hotel in Cupertino. If you are from a CalConnect member you will be able to book at the Apple rate.
Ms. Kellie Hunter of PeopleCube has been elected to the CalConnect Board of Directors and has assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer. The new Board of Directors makeup and officer appointments may be found at CalConnect Board of Directors.
The CalConnect Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms was originally published in 2006 and is strongly in need of an update to reflect changes and advances in Calendaring and Scheduling since that time.
As noted on Andrew McMillan’s blog at http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/blog/davical_097_released “Since DAViCal has always had Freebusy URLs, and in fact accepted a couple of simple parameters in them already it turned out to be a simple matter to provide these standardised ones as well. This change was included in DAViCal 0.9.7…”.
The Topical Agendas for the Technical Committee sessions at the upcoming Roundtable XV have been published and are on the logistics page for CalConnect XV at Topical Agendas. An agenda is also provided for the Shared Calendar Workshop on Wednesday afternoon. The workshop is intended to start addressing how shared, public, and group calendars are being implemented and how to provide for them in the standards, to avoid calendaring clients having to have separate implementations for each provider.
The IESG has just announced that the revised draft of RFC 2445, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (currently called rfc2445bis) has been approved as a Proposed Standard. CalConnect has for some time been providing input and errata to the IETF CALSIFY working group to support this revision. CalConnect congratulates the CALSIFY working group, Bernard Desruisseaux, the editor of the revision, and everyone who worked to bring this revision to completion and publication.