CalConnect Interoperability Test Event - 5-7 October
CalConnect Roundtable XVI - 7-9 October
Information is current through September 22, 2009
Meeting venue changed, Wednesday reception location changed
CalConnect XVI, consisting of a CalConnect Interoperability Test Event and a CalConnect Roundtable (Members Meeting), will be held in Cupertino, California, on Monday-Friday, October 5-9, 2009, hosted by Apple, Inc..
The IOP Testing will take place all day Monday and Tuesday October 5-6, and Wednesday morning, ending at noon on Wednesday October 7. The Roundtable will begin with lunch at 12:30 on Wednesday the 7th, and last through early afternoon Friday the 9th. An optional Introductory Q & A about CalConnect, intended for first-time attendees, is scheduled at 11:00 on Wednesday the 7th.
More information will be posted as it becomes available, in particular a confirmed schedule of Roundtable sessions and topical agendas should be available by mid-September.
CalConnect Interoperability Test Event: The IOP Test Event event is open to both members and non-members as participants or as observers; please see IOP Test Event September 2009 for current information. Check back often as this will be updated as we get nearer to the event.
You do not need finished or polished code to participate in the IOP testing; in fact as soon as you have something working at all, testing against other participants can help debugging and code development, especially in identifying red herrings and wrong decisions.
Please Note: This is a regular IOP test event focused on calendaring servers and desktop clients. The next Mobile Calendaring IOP Test Event has not been confirmed. Some possibility exists for a Mobile Calendaring IOP Test Event at CalConnect XVI in parallel with the regular test event.
Roundtable XVI: The Roundtable Members Meeting will offer Technical Committee sessions, to which all members and observers are welcome, informal BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), plus additional sessions and committee meetings.
Friday morning will be the full Plenary meeting of the Consortium, open to all participants. This session will include report-outs from all Technical Committees, possibly demonstrations resulting from the IOP testing earlier in the week, and establishment of future goals and directions for the Consortium.
International visitors who are not U.S. Citizens or hold a valid U.S. passport should acquaint themselves with any changes in U.S. travel and visitor policy since their last visit to the U.S. at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/id_visa/. Attendees who require a Letter of Invitation to obtain a visa should contact Dave Thewlis, CalConnect Executive Director, at Dave.Thewlis@calconnect.org. Please be aware that you must have registered for the event before a Letter of Invitation can be issued.
Please see Registration and Payment Options to choose your registration type and payment option for the Roundtable and/or the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event. Note that you must register separately for these events.
The Interoperability Test Event and the Roundtable will take place in the Beatles meeting room on the first floor of Building De Anza 3, 10500 N. De Anza Blvd, Cupertino, California. This building is immediately south of the Infinite Loop campus. For a view of the Cupertino campus showing the location of building De Anza 3 see Cupertino Campus Map. For a map of the general area showing the location of the conference hotel, see Apple Cupertino Campus vicinity.
Please note that you can park in the De Anza 3 parking lot, or anywhere in any of the parking areas within Infinite Loop itself.
Airport Information: The San Francisco Bay Area is served by three airports: San Jose Mineta Airport (SJC), San Francisco International (SFO), and Oakland International (OAK).
Cupertino is about 30 miles south of San Francisco International Airport, and quite close to San Jose International. Oakland International is on the east side of the Bay and less convenient. SFO has the most flights and airlines serving it, but you may be able to find less expensive fares via SJC or OAK.
Ground Transportation: Information on rental cars and shuttles are available on all three airport websites. The conference hotel listed below is within easy walking distance of the Apple campus are are several other hotels, so it is possible to avoid having a rental car if you wish to use a shuttle or public transportation to and from the airport.
The conference hotel is the Cypress Hotel; while we have not arranged a specific room block (as we cannot guarantee a given number of room nights because this is a small organization), attendees are encouraged to book at this hotel. CalConnect member participants will be able to book at this hotel at the Apple rate by going to Members-only Apple Rate. If the Cypress Hotel is full they will assist you in booking another hotel in the area.
The Cupertino Inn is also close to the Apple campus and frequently used by Apple visitors and is provided as the nearest alternative.
| The Cypress Hotel 10050 South De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: +1 408 253 8900 http://www.thecypresshotel.com Apple rate available to CalConnect members; see Book the Apple Rate. |
The Cupertino Inn 10889 North De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014-6301 Phone: +1 408 996 7700 http://www.cupertinoinn.com |
The IOP Test Event begins at 0800 Monday morning and runs all day Monday and Tuesday, plus Wednesday morning. The Roundtable begins with lunch on Wednesday and runs until early afternoon on Friday.
A downloadable iCalendar.ics file with the entire schedule is also available at CalConnectWeek.ics.
| CALCONNECT INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENT - Beatles meeting room, 1st Floor, De Anza 3 (except as noted) | ||
| Monday 5 October 0800-0830 Opening Breakfast 0830-1000 Testing 1000-1030 Break 1030-1230 Testing 1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1530 Testing 1530-1600 BOFs/Break 1600-1800 Testing 1930-2100 IOP Test Dinner Duke of Edinburgh Pub Cupertino, CA |
Tuesday 6 October 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-1000 Testing 1000-1030 Break 1030-1230 Testing 1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1530 Testing 1530-1600 Break 1600-1800 Meet the Apple Engineers1 1800-1900 Informal cocktail/chat hour Piano Bar Room, Building IL4 (see campus map) |
Wednesday 7 October 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-1000 Testing 1000-1030 Break 1030-1200 Testing 1200-1230 Wrap-up 1230 End of IOP Testing 1230-1330 Lunch/Opening2 |
The IOP Test Event begins at 0800 Monday morning and runs all day Monday and Tuesday, plus Wednesday morning. The Roundtable begins with lunch on Wednesday and runs until early afternoon on Friday.
A downloadable iCalendar.ics file with the entire schedule is also available at CalConnectWeek.ics.
| ROUNDTABLE XVI - Beatles meeting room, 1st Floor, De Anza 3 (except as noted) | ||
| Wednesday 7 October 1000-1200 User Special Interest Group6 1100-1200 Introduction to CalConnect3 1230-1330 Lunch/Opening 1315-1330 IOP Test Report 1330-1500 TC RESOURCE 1500-1530 BOF CalDAV Extensions 1530-1600 Break 1600-1800 TC XML 1800-1930 Welcome Reception4 Outback Steakhouse 20630 Valley Green Drive, Cupertino 5 minute walk from Apple |
Thursday 8 October 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-1030 TC CALDAV 1030-1100 Break 1100-1230 TC TIMEZONE 1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1500 TC iSCHEDULE 1500-1600 TC FREEBUSY 1600-1630 Break 1630-1800 Steering Committee 1930-2130 Group Dinner5 Zitune Restaurant 325 Main Street, Los Altos |
Friday 9 October 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-0900 TC EVENTPUB 0900-0930 TC MOBILE 0930-1030 TC USECASE 1030-1100 Break 1100-1200 BOF Digital Calendaring Outreach 1200-1230 TC Wrapup 1230-1330 Working Lunch 1230-1400 CalConnect Plenary Session 1400 Close of Meeting |
| 1The "Meet the Apple Engineers" session is a Q&A sesson with iCal server, iCal client, and iPhone Calendar engineers. It is open to all Interoperability Test Event participants, and also to registered Roundtable participants who wish to arrive early for this event. The informal cocktail and chat hour following this event is open to everyone who attends the session. Please Note: You must indicate that you wish to attend this session on your registration form if you are registered for the Roundtable but not the IOP Test Event. 2The Wednesday lunch is for all participants in the IOP Test Event and/or Roundtable 3The Introduction to CalConnect is an optional informal Q&A session for new attendees (observers or new member representatives) 4All Roundtable and/or IOP Test Event participants are invited to the Wednesday evening reception 5All Roundtable participants are invited to the group dinner on Thursday 6The User Special Interest Group will meet separately from the IOP test event in the Doors Conference room, 1st Floor, Building De Anza 3. This meeting is limited to representatives of user (i.e. customer) organizations. Breakfast, lunch, and morning and afternoon breaks will be served to all participants in the Roundtable and the IOP test events and are included in your registration fees. |
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Topical Agendas:
TC CALDAV Thu 0830-1030 1. Progress and Status Update 1.1 IETF 1.2 CalConnect 2. Open Discussions 2.1 Calendar Alarm Extensions 2.2 WebDAV Synchronization 2.3 Shared Calendars 2.4 Calendar Attachments 3. Moving Forward 3.1 Plan of Action 3.2 Next Conference Calls TC EVENTPUB Fri 0830-0900 1. Status Update 2. Way forward TC FREEBUSY Thu 1500-1600 1. Work since Roundtable XV 2. Consensus Scheduleing 3. TC Freebusy Futures TC IOPTEST Wed 1315-1330 Review of IOP test participant findings TC iSCHEDULE Thu 1330-1500 1. Progress and status update 2. Open Discussions 3. Moving Forward 3.1 Plan of Action 3.2 Next Conference Calls |
TC MOBILE Fri 0900-0930 1. Introduction 2. Mobile IOP Test Event Planning 3. Outreach 4. Mobile Calendaring Vision discussion and brainstorming 5. Mobile Calendaring Questionnaire V3 6. Mobile device calendaring certification 7. Future of TC MOBILE TC RESOURCE Wed 1330-1500 1. Updated resource attributes table 2. Progress on resource schema draft 3. Next steps 3.1 Finish draft 3.2 Discuss other resource related topics TC TIMEZONE Thu 1100-1230 1. Olson's post to TZ list about retirement 2. Follow-up from IETF discussions 3. Progress on RFCs 4. Implementations and demo TC USECASE Fri 0930-1030 1. Review work goals from last Roundtable 2. Review work progress on goals 3. NASA Usecases presentation 4. Discussion: Glossary update solicit additions/deletions/updates TC XML Wed 1600-1800 1. Current state of TC XML work and discussion. 2. Recap of calendaring web service discussion to date. 3. Presentation and discussion of new charter. 4. Discuss next steps for WS-Calendar work. |