CalConnect Seminar - April 19, 2016 | CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

April 19, 2016 - 5pm to 7pm
University of Hong Kong, K.K. Leung Building, Room KK102

Schedule

1700-1715 CalConnect and Interoperable C&S
1715-1745 Calendaring & Scheduling Grand Challenges
1745-1830 Calendaring & Scheduling for the Developer
1830-1900 Q&A

Introduction

CalConnect, the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium, is coming to Hong Kong for our first members conference to be held in the Asia/Pacific Region.

To celebrate this special event, with our Hong Kong host organizations, OGCIO and Ribose (ribose.com), we are holding two additional events, a public day (Wednesday, April 20, 2016) at the Hong Kong International ITFest, and a seminar at The University of Hong Kong on Tuesday evening April 19th.

CalConnect members, calendaring & scheduling entrepreneurs and software developers, will present a program suitable for both technical (computer science students and faculty, software developers) as well as less technical audiences:

1700 - 1715 Intro to CalConnect and Interoperable Calendaring & Scheduling
1715 - 1745 C&S Grand Challenges - where we’ve been, where we’re going (panel)
1745 - 1830 C&S for the Developer – a look at CalDAV, web services, TZ server, open source, standards (Panel)
1830 - 1900 Question & Answer session

Following the formal program, there will be an opportunity to speak with the CalConnect presenters.

Although CalConnect is not a formal standards body, over the last five years, most of the Calendaring standards development and discussion have taken place in CalConnect. Our membership includes some of the world's largest software development organizations, as well as emergent vendors and startups, end user organizations, interested individuals, and research universities.

CalConnect is very excited to be coming to Hong Kong for our 36th Conference, and we are equally excited to be able to share and discuss our work with the students and faculty at Hong Kong University.

To learn more about CalConnect, our events in Hong Kong, and the CalConnect members who are attending these events, see:
https://www.calconnect.org/
https://www.calconnect.org/email-announce/20160420-calconnect-hkitfest.html
https://www.calconnect.org/events/calconnect-public-day-hong-kong-it-fest
https://www.calconnect.org/events/calconnect-xxxvi-april-18-22-2016

We look forward to speaking with you on April 19th.

On behalf of CalConnect, the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium,

Gary Schwartz
President, CalConnect
Director of Communications & Middleware Technologies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
schwag@rpi.edu

Sponsors

CalConnect wishes to recognize, and to thank, our hosts, sponsors, and supporting organizations, who are collaborating with us on CalConnect XXXVI, our first event in the Asia /Pacific region.

Hosts

Commercial Sponsor

British Standards Institution

Venue Sponsors

Supporting Organizations

Special thanks to

Conference Details

CalConnect conference planners share a "reading list" for conference attendees to help them prepare for, and participate in conference discussions. It is not a requirement that attendees familiarize themselves with all these material,s, but we believe it will make the experience more enjoyable and valuable, especially for first time attendees.

Although the Seminar is intended to be accessible to technical and non-technical audiences, Seminar attendees might find it interesting to see some of these technical references.

Reading list for CalConnect XXXVI conference attendees

The following is a reading/familiarization list of documents, intended both for first-time attendees and those familiar with calendaring and scheduling specifications but who may not be familiar with the specific areas to be discussed in sessions at the coming conference.

Where possible existing standards, drafts, and explanatory documents are linked to.

THE BASIC STANDARDS FOR CALENDARING AND SCHEDULING

Some familiarity with the following is desirable:

RFC 5545 - iCalendar: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5545.txt

RFC 5546 - iTIP: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5546.txt

RFC 6047 - iMIP: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6047.txt

RFC 4791 - CalDAV: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4791.txt

RFC 6638 - CalDAV Scheduling: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6638.txt

IETF DRAFTS STATUS

The following standards and in-progress drafts have had their status changed since our last event in January

RFC 7808 - Time Zone Data Distribution Service: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7808.txt

RFC 7808 CalDAV Time Zones by Reference: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7809.txt

VAVAILABILITY: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-calext-availability

New Properties for iCalendar: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-calext-extensions/

CONFERENCE TECHNICAL SESSIONS IN AGENDA ORDER AND RELATED DOCUMENTS

THURSDAY 21 APRIL

IMIP

E-mail Header for Improved iMIP Interoperability: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-imip-headers-00

RFC 6047 - iMIP: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6047.txt

DEVGUIDE

CalConnect Developer's Guide (under development): http://devguide.calconnect.org

FRIDAY 22 APRIL

RSCALE (Recurrences in Non-Gregorian Calendars)

RFC 7529 = RSCALE: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7529/

DAV-BASED RESOURCE SHARING

Discussion of issues, what CalConnect has done and is doing: https://evertpot.com/webdav-caldav-carddav-sharing/

WebDAV User Notifications: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pot-webdav-notifications

WebDAV Resource Sharing: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pot-webdav-resource-sharing

CalDAV Calendar Sharing: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pot-caldav-sharing

CALENDAR EXTENSIONS: SCOPED ATTENDEES

Scoped Attendees: draft-daboo-icalendar-scoped-attendee-00.txt (unpublished; attached to e-mail)

CATEGORIZATION/EVENT-TYPES

Structured data: draft-daboo-icalendar-structured-data-00.txt (unpublished; attached to e-mail)

Event Publishing Categories and structure Data (unpublished; attached to e-mail)

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READING

The following standards and drafts while not explicitly called out in any of the scheduled sessions are the focus of much recent and current work in CalConnect, and they may come up during discussions.