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Why Join the Consortium?
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The Consortium is focused on a single purpose
(C&S standards and technologies)
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The Consortium is built to accomplish its purpose and
goals and then disband when it is done; it won't
be immortal
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The Consortium was set up without startup financing from
a single source or group of dominant founders and will
have no members who are "more equal" than other members
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The promotional focus is important for all who feel
that C&S standards, products and services are
important
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Not doing standards development per se means that the
Consortium maintains a focus on activities that give
the standards commercial value: promotion, requirements
setting and validation
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The Consortium's model of equal participation and
influence by members of all types engages academic
institutions, customers and others in establishing the
direction of the Consortium and its working group
activities
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Vendor members gain in terms of both
participation and public perception by not overtly
dominating the Consortium
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Consortium membership is inexpensive
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The Consortium is nonprofit and by intention tax exempt;
membership dollars go towards accomplishing the purpose of the
Consortium
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Calendaring today is like e-mail in the mid-1980s.
Interoperable calendaring once ubiquitous will become
pervasive and spread across all forms of connectivity
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The promotional work of the Consortium to further awareness
of Calendaring and Scheduling means membership
helps to promote goal of advancing C&S regardless
of actual participation in Consortium activities
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E-mail, IM, mobile phones have fostered "instant
communication" even where not necessary. Our culture
hasn't absorbed the technologies so everyone feels a
need to be always available. Calendaring and
scheduling will help move a large part of the
interactions away from real-time immediacy
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Everyone should care about calendaring and scheduling;
the only reason it may not seem important today is that
it's not ubiquitous yet. Its importance will become
obvious when it becomes part of the computing fabric
for everyone
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