CalConnect Interoperability Test Event - January 30 - February 1
CalConnect Roundtable XXIII - 1-3 February
Information is current to January 27, 2012
Location of USIG meeting Wednesday Morning identified
CalConnect XXIII, consisting of CalConnect Interoperability Test Events, and a CalConnect Roundtable Technical Conference (Members Meeting), will be held in Cupertino, California Monday-Friday, January 30 - February 3, 2012, hosted by Apple Inc..
The Interoperability Test Events will take place all day Monday and Tuesday January 30-31, and Wednesday morning February 1, ending at noon. The Roundtable will begin with lunch at 12:30 on Wednesday the 1st, and last through early afternoon Friday the 3rd. An optional Introductory Q & A about CalConnect, intended for first-time attendees, will be scheduled at 11:00 on Wednesday the 1st if we have first-time attendees.
CalConnect Interoperability Test Events: At this meeting, we will host a combined regular CalConnect Interoperability Test Event and a Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event. A participating organization may register for either or both events for a single registration fee, but should be aware that they may require additional individuals to participate in both activities.
The IOP Test Events are open to both members and non-members as participants or as observers; please see CalConnect Interoperability Test Event January-February 2012 for current information. Check back often as this will be updated as more information becomes available.
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.
Roundtable XXIII: The Roundtable Technical ConferenceMembers 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 afternoon will be the full Plenary meeting of the Consortium, open to all participants. This session will include report-outs from all Technical Committees, 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.
San Francisco is the most practical airport for international arrivals and departures although the other two offer some international service.
Please see Registration and Payment Options to choose your registration type and payment option for the Roundtable and/or the CalConnect Interoperability Test Events. Note that you must register separately for the Roundtable and for the Test Events. You may register at any time for the next events.
The Interoperability Test Event and the Roundtable will take place at Apple headquarters, One Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. Monday morning only we will be in the Launch conference room on the first floor of building Infinite Loop 2 (IL2/1). Starting Monday lunch and for the rest of the week we will be in the Garage 1 conference room on the second floor of building Infinite Loop 4 (IL4/2). Please see Apple Campus and surrounding area for a map of the Apple Headquarters campus and surrounding area. Zooming in on the map will show you the location of the separate Infinite Loop buildings.
Parking: Parking is available in any of the parking areas within Infinite Loop itself.
Airport Information: The San Francisco Bay Area is served by three airports: San Francisco International (SFO), Oakland International (OAK), and San Jose Mineta Airport (SJC).
Cupertino is about 30 miles south of San Francisco International Airport, and quite close to San Jose International Airport. Oakland International is on the east side of San Francisco Bay and much less convenient to the South Bay area. SFO has the most flights and airlines serving it, but you might be able to find less expensive fares via SJC or OAK.
Ground Transportation: Information on rental cars and shuttles is available on all three airport websites. Two of the hotels listed below (Cypress Hotel and Cupertino Inn) are within walking distance of the Apple campus, so it would be psosible to avoid having a rental car if you use a shuttle service or other public transportation to and from the airport; alternatively you may be able to arrange rides between your hotel and the Apple campus with other conference attendees.
We are not designating a "Conference Hotel" for this meeting as we have not been able to establish special rates. There are many hotels in the area, however The Cypress Hotel and the Cupertino Inn are the closest to the Apple Campus and within walking distance. The Cypress Hotel is currently offering a rather high rate unless you book for seven days or more; it might be worth it to do that and try to truncate your visit. There does not appear to be any significant savings using the Apple rate but you are welcome to request it of either the Cypress or the Cupertino Inn. The Wild Palms hotel is a bit further (about 2 miles from Apple) and offers a somewhat lower rate; it is a member of Joie de Vivre, a well-thought-of California hotel chain.
| The Cypress Hotel 10050 South De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: +1 408 253 8900 http://www.thecypresshotel.com |
The Cupertino Inn 10889 North De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014-6301 Phone: +1 408 996 7700 http://www.cupertinoinn.com |
The Wild Palms Hotel 910 E. Fremont Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Phone: +1 408 738 0500 http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/siliconvalley/wild_palms |
The Interoperability 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.
Please Note:
Monday 0800-1200 we will be in the Launch Conference Room, Building 2, First Floor
Monday 1230-1800 and Tuesday-Friday inclusive we will be in the Garage 1 Conference Room, Building 4, Second Floor
| CALCONNECT INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENT | ||
| Monday 30 January - IL2/1 LAUNCH Conference Room until noon 0800-0830 Opening Breakfast 0830-1000 Testing 1000-1030 Break 1030-1200 Testing 1200-1215 Relocate to IL4/2 GARAGE conference room 1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1430 BOF: Update vs replacement of calendar and contact data 1430-1530 Testing 1530-1600 Break 1600-1800 Testing 1915-2200 IOP Test Dinner Los Gatos Brewing Company 130 North Santa Cruz Avenue Los Gatos, CA |
Tuesday 31 January 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-1000 Testing 1000-1030 Break 1030-1230 Testing 1230-1330 Lunch and BOF Auto-discovery and account provisioning 1330-1530 Testing 1530-1600 Break 1600-1800 Testing |
Wednesday 1 February 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-1000 Testing 1000-1030 Break 1030-1200 Testing 1200-1230 Wrap-up 1230 End of IOP Testing 1230-1330 Lunch/Opening1 |
The Interoperability 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.
Please Note:
Monday 0800-1200 we will be in the Launch Conference Room, Building 2, First Floor
Monday 1230-1800 and Tuesday-Friday inclusive we will be in the Garage 1 Conference Room, Building 4, Second Floor
| ROUNDTABLE XXIII | ||
| Wednesday 1 February 1000-1200 User Special Interest Group2 1100-1200 Introduction to CalConnect3 1230-1330 Lunch/Opening 1315-1330 IOP Test Report 1330-1500 TC FREEBUSY 1500-1530 Break 1530-1700 TC EVENTPUB 1700-1800 Host Session 1815-2030 Welcome Reception4 Piano Bar, First Floor, Infinite Loop 4 |
Thursday 2 February 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-0930 TC XML 0930-1030 TC RESOURCE 1030-1100 Break 1100-1230 TC CALDAV 1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1500 TC ISCHEDULE 1500-1600 BOF: Report on IOP Test Event BOF Sessions 1600-1630 Break 1630-1800 Steering Committee5 1900-2200 Group Dinner6 California Cafe 50 University Avenue Old Town Los Gatos, CA |
Friday 3 February 0800-0830 Breakfast 0830-0930 TC MOBILE 0930-1030 TC USECASE 1030-1100 Break 1100-1200 TC TIMEZONE 1200-1230 TC Wrapup 1230-1330 Working Lunch 1300-1400 CalConnect Plenary Session 1400 Close of Meeting |
1The Wednesday lunch is for all participants in the IOP Test Events and/or Roundtable 2The User Special Interest Group will meet in the iMAC Conference Room in IL4 second floor. 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 Events participants are invited to the Wednesday evening reception 5Member reprsentatives not on the Steering Committee are invited to attend the SC meeting. This meeting is closed to Observers 6All Roundtable participants are invited to the group dinner on Thursday. Dinner reception starting at 7:15; seating for dinner at 8:00 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:
To be established by mid-January
TC CALDAV Thu 1100-1230 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. Progress and Status Update 2.1 IETF 2.2 CalConnect 3. Open Discussions 3.1 CalDAV User Level Notifications 3.2 Managed Attachments 3.3 Calendar Alarms 3.4 Collected CalDAV Extensions 4. Moving Forward 4.1 Plan of Action 4.2 Next Conference Call TC EVENTPUB Wed 1530-1700 1. Charter 2. Work and accomplishments 3. New properties - link etc - discussion moved to XML 4. Rich text properties 5. Multi-language support 6. Going Forward - new Chair needed 7. Next meeting TC FREEBUSY Wed 1330-1500 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. VPOLL current state 3. Moving Forward 3.1 Plan of action 3.2 Next conference calls TC IOPTEST Wed 1315-1330 Review of IOP test participant findings TC iSCHEDULE Thu 1330-1500 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. Open Discussions 2.1 Use of iSchedule in a private network environment 3. Moving Forward 3.1 Plan of Action 3.2 Next Conference Calls |
TC MOBILE Fri 0830-0930 1. Discussion of mobile issues with calendaring 2. Consistency of recurrence handling 3. Future direction for TC MOBILE TC RESOURCE Thu 0930-1030 1. Introduction 1.1 TC Charter 1.2 Work so far 2. vCard4-LDAP Mapping 3. TC Future TC TIMEZONE Fri 1100-1200 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. Current timezone service draft 3. Aliases 4. Registries and data formats 5. Current implementations - and call for more 6. Moving Forward 6.1 Plan of action 6.2 Next conference calls TC USECASE Fri 0930-1030 1. Discuss final usecases for changing meeting ownership 2. Discuss final usecases for specialized freebusy TC XML Thu 0830-0930 1. Introduction 1.1 Charter 1.2 Summary 2. CalWS-SOAP current state 3. Vavailability uses 4. iCalendar in JSON 5. Interoperability testing of XML data formats 6. Moving Forward 6.1 Plan of action 6.2 Next conference calls |
Scheduled BOFs
Monday Lunch: Update vs replacement of calendar and contact data: The BOF will discuss the problems with replacement as an update mechanism and how various solutions are being developed to avoid these issues. The problem areas to be covered will include update of attachments in CalDAV and attendee participation status changes.
Tuesday Lunch: Auto-discovery and account provisioning: This BOF will discuss various ways to improve the current process for auto-discovery of server and automatic account provisioning. We will discuss the current standards approach of SRV records + .well-known resource, and look at an alternative pure HTTP solution using the webfinger proposal.
Requests for BOF sessions can be made at the Wednesday opening and known BOFs will be scheduled at that time. However spontaneous BOF sessions are welcome to be called at BOF session time during the Roundtable.