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CALCONNECT DOCUMENT CD 0901 Type: Report Title: Report on Roundtable XIV Version: 1.0 Date: 2009-02-06 Status: Published Source: N/A Report on Roundtable XIV February 4-6 2009Roundtable XIV took place on February 4-6, 2009, hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. The event was attended by 31 people from 20 organizations, including representatives from two observers (organizations attending a Roundtable to see if they wish to join). The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event (CITE) was held immediately prior to the Roundtable on February 2-4. Five organizations and 18 people participated in the regular test event, performing interoperability testing between their calendaring and scheduling implementations. A reports on the CITE will be published as soon as information has been delivered from all participants. The Roundtable was dedicated to technical committee sessions, BOFs, and informal discussions and networking, with an all-hands Plenary meeting as the last item on Friday afternoon. The Technical Committee sessions were as usual organized sequentially, without competing parallel sessions, as is our standard practice to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of each Technical Committee the opportunity to do so. SPECIAL EVENTSTwo special events occured at this roundtable. On Tuesday, the Timezone Technical Committee sponsored an open workshop on issues with timezones, and CalConnect's work towards a Timezone Registry and Timezone Service proposals. The event was attended by 17 people; remote call-in and Livemeeting support was also available.On Wednesday afternoon Ben Fortuna, the author of iCal4J, was our first guest speaker. Ben spoke about the inception and evolution of ical4j, and where he saw ical4j going in the future. Ben was with us almost the entire week, so the membership had many opportunities to meet and talk with Ben. Ben's presentation may be found at iCal4j at CalConnect. UPDATE ON TECHNICAL COMMITTEE WORK AND INITIATIVESThe following documents are about to finish Last Call and be published:
Calonnect and the World Wide Calendar: This brainstorming session for everyone attending the Roundtable was designed to get people's heads up and have them look at the larger picture. We looked at calendaring issues beyond the institutions and corporations most of us represent. Interoperability on a world wide scale will begin to happen when soccer moms (or football mums!) can see when their child's next game is and make appointments with their doctor as easily as keep a work schedule. We discussed social adaptations like ubiquitous cell phone conversations (maybe not a plus!) as well as the coming integration of calendaring with social networking sites like Facebook. We intend for this to be an ongoing discussions at Roundtables as we pull back from the (equally important) technical work to view calendaring from the viewpoint of the world at large. CALCONNECT INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENTParticipants in the IOP test included Apple, IBM, Microsoft, PeopleCube, and Yahoo!/Zimbra. Results from the event will be posted at Past IOP Reports as soon as they are collated and prepared.OTHER EVENTS
FUTURE EVENTSCALCONNECT XV: June 1-5, 2009.CALCONNECT XVI: October 5-9, 2009 CALCONNECT XVII: February 1-5, 2010 Third Mobile Calendaring IOP Test Event: timing and location not yet determined The format of the CalConnect week is: Monday morning through Wednesday noon, C.I.T.E. (CalConnect Interoperability Test Event) Wednesday noon through Friday afternoon, Roundtable (presentations, TC sessions, BOFs, networking, Plenary).
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