Membership Expands CalConnect’s Growth in the International Arena

DOC: ZideOne Joins CalConnect.

McKinleyville, CA – April 30, 2009

The Calendar and Scheduling Consortium has announced that ZideOne has become one of the 2 open-source organizations in the consortium. ZideOne is headquartered in Magdeburg, Germany.

ZideOne participated in CalConnect’s “Meet CalConnect” event in Prague, Czech Republic.

“Standards are crucial to bring calendaring to a new level,” said Helge Hess, CEO of ZideOne, “and ZideOne believes that CalConnect is the organization to drive calendaring standards. E-mail messaging grew by magnitudes when Internet standards got implemented; we target the same thing for calendaring.”

“As companies and organizations become international in scope and spread across more and more time zones, the work of CalConnect’s members assumes greater economic significance,”

said the Consortium’s Executive Director Dave Thewlis. “CalConnect is finding strong interest in the challenges related to calendaring and scheduling among both North American and European organizations. The commonality among all of our members is their support of and increasing reliance on published protocols and implementation of open standards in calendaring and scheduling solutions. Our focus is on interoperability, and open standards are the key.”

ZideOne aims to add Internet standards based calendaring and contact management to Microsoft Outlook. The company’s product “ZideOne Connector” can be used to connect arbitrary CalDAV and CardDAV servers to the popular calendaring and contact management client of Microsoft. ZideOne is headquartered in Magdeburg, Germany.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing.

The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organizational members are Apple, Cabo Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, IceWarp, Kerio Technologies, MailSafe, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, NASA, neutralSpace, New York University, Notify Technology, Oracle, Patricia Egen Consulting, PeopleCube, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, SWAMI (Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure), Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo!/Zimbra, and ZideOne.