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Only 4 weeks to CalConnect XVII
It is now only 4 weeks (28 days) to CalConnect XVII, February 1-5 at the University of California at Irvine, and only 12 days until...
Nokia Corporation joins CalConnect
I am delighted to announce that Nokia Corporation has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
Reminder; Early Registration for Roundtable XVII ends on 15th
If you are planning to attend Roundtable XVII at UC Irvine, please remember that early registration ends on the 15th and the registration fee will...
The IETF has published the revision to iTIP
RFC 5546, iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP), has been published by the IETF as a Proposed Standard. This is the revision to RFC 2446 (iTIP)...
CalConnect XXII to be held at Kerio Technologies in the Czech Republic
CalConnect has accepted the offer of Kerio Technologies to host its twenty-second Roundtable and Interoperability Test Event. CalConnect XVII will be held in the Autumn...
Report on Roundtable XVII
A brief report on CalConnect Roundtable XVII and the associated Interoperability Test Event, held February 1-5, 2010, at the University of California at Irvine, has...
Update; CalDAV Support for Symbian
See http://blog.symbian.org/2010/02/25/%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BFcaldav-support-for-symbian-a-contribution-by-sun-microsystems/.
Registration opens for CalConnect XVIII May 24-28 2010
Registration is now open for CalConnect XVIII, May 24-28, 2010, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. This week will include both a regular and...
Third Mobile Calendaring IOP Test Event May 24-26 2010
On May 24-26, 2010, CalConnect will hold its third Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event, as part of CalConnect XVIII at Carnegie Mellon University. This event...
February 2010 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event Report Published
The public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event on February 1-3 2010 has been published. This event was hosted by UC Irvine in conjunction...
CalConnect Minutes from Roundtable XVII
CalConnect Minutes is the CalConnect newsletter published after each CalConnect Roundtable. Each edition contains information from the previous Roundtable and IOP Test Event plus articles...
Doug Day's iCalendar Validator
Doug Day has provided an iCalendar Validator which will validate calendaring data against the iCalendar (RFC 5545) standard. See http://icalvalid.cloudapp.net/.
Only 4 weeks to CalConnect XVIII
It is now only 4 weeks to CalConnect XVIII, May 24-28 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh — and only 2 weeks until Early Registration...
Genentech Joins CalConnect
I am delighted to announce that Genentech, Inc. has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
Resource Schema for calendaring and scheduling services published
TC RESOURCE has published its Schema for representing resources for calendaring and scheduling services, and the proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an...
Cal-WS Web Services API draft available for Public Review
CalConnect and the XML Technical Committee have made the in-progress work document, Cal-WS Web Services API for Calendaring and Scheduling, available for 30-day Public Review...
Report on Roundtable XVIII
A brief report on Roundtable XVIII, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 24-28, 2010, has been posted to the website. This report...
Binary Tree Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is delighted to announce that Binary Tree has joined CalConnect.
Member Focus; dotCal
dotCal is an Internet marketing service that helps consumers and businesses communicate event information across a variety of calendar programs. It is one of the...
New Member Focus Service
CalConnect is expanding the Member News service on our blog. The addition is a Member Focus service—a short introduction on the blog to a specific...
Apple announces CalDAV support in new MobileMe Calendar
Apple has inaugurated a beta program for their new MobileMe Calendar, which uses the CalDAV protocol. A browser-based web client is offered, in addition to...
LINK Property Proposal and Timezone Service and XML Specification Proposals Published
The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published LINK Property Extension to iCalendar, and the proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft. Please...
CalConnect Minutes from Roundtable XVIII
CalConnect Minutes is the CalConnect newsletter published after each CalConnect Roundtable. Each edition contains information from the previous Roundtable and IOP Test Event plus articles...
Invitation to participate in the next Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event
RECENT UPDATE as of 7 September 2010 Based on the responses we received, the Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event will not be held in October,...
May 2010 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event Report Published
The public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event on May 24-26 2010 has been published. This test event included both a “regular” test event...
Registration is open for CalConnect XIX, October 4-8, 2010, at IBM/Lotus in Littleton MA
Registration is open for the autumn 2010 CalConnect Roundtable and Interoperability Test event, to be held the week of October 4-8, 2010, at IBM/Lotus in...
TC MOBILE Interoperability Test Event Report published
The TC MOBILE Interoperability Event Report discussing the May 2010 Interoperability Test Event has been published. This report offers a broad public overview of the...
CalConnect, OASIS Team Up on Key Smart-Grid Project
CalConnect and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, have been tasked jointly by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)...
CalWS-Rest Restful Web Services Protocol for Calendaring published
The XML Technical Committee has published CalWS-Rest Restful Web Services Protocol for Calendaring. This work was undertaken in conjunction with the OASIS WS CALENDAR Technical...
CalConnect, OASIS Team Up on Key Smart-Grid Project
CalConnect and OASIS have been tasked jointly by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce one of the standards that will make...
Tungle Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Tungle Corp. as a member of the Consortium.
CalConnect member dotCal offers event publication to media
Newspapers looking to enhance communications with their customers and draw more readers to their advertisers are using a new Internet-based calendar communications network as a...
CalConnect XIX underway at IBM/Lotus
CalConnect XIX is underway at IBM/Lotus in Littleton, MA. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday morning are the interoperability test event; Wednesday-Friday will be Roundtable XIX. Our...
Tungle Joins The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that Tungle Corporation has joined CalConnect.
CalConnect has published “An Introduction to Internet Calendaring”
CalConnect has published An Introduction to Internet Calendering. This Introduction provides an overview of the major calendaring & scheduling standards and data exchange protocols. It...
Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars -- A CalConnect Perspective
Earlier this week, David Pogue’s posting (http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/shifting-time-zones-on-online-calendars/) “Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars Appeared on the New York Times web site. For the last 10...
Report on Roundtable XIX
A brief report on Roundtable XIX has been posted to the CalConnect website.
TimeTrade Systems Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes TimeTrade Systems as a member of the consortium.
Member Focus; Zimbra (a VMware division)
Zimbra is a software vendor that provides an open source email, calendaring & collaboration suite.
Oracle announces Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite 7 update 1
Oracle recently announced the release of Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite 7 Update 1 at Oracle Open World in San Francisco.
Observations on “Online calendaring and booking”
A recent (October 25th) post in the CalendarReview blog, “Online calendaring and online booking”, discusses connecting user-based interfaces (such as ‘shopfronts', customer-to-business incarnations, and the...
Timezones and how they get that way
With this weekend’s transition in the U.S. from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, let’s resume the discussion of timezones we started in a posting...
Let Your Calendar Help Make Your Events More Successful
Earlier this week, I viewed (more listened, really) to a webcast from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/udell), “Rethinking the community calendar"
In calendaring, success means the right thing, the right way!
CalConnect is focused on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and technologies. The Consortium’s mission is to promote general...
Registration has opened for CalConnect XX at UC Berkeley, February 7-11 2011
Registration is now open for CalConnect XX, February 7-11, 2011, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley California.