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Read any good timezones lately?
“I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be...
Check out CalConnect at CalConnect XX in February
Even if your organization is not currently a member of CalConnect, our upcoming event, CalConnect XX, in February is a perfect opportunity to learn more...
“The Times, They Are a-Changin”
Although I promised in my most recent posting, “Read Any Good Timezones Lately”, that I had left the topic of timezones behind, an editorial in...
CalConnect XX a great success
CalConnect holds three IOP test events and Roundtables (members' meeting) each year, and last week it was hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. The...
Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published a new CalConnect proposal, Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
Calendaring in a Public University
Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Shel Waggener (http://technology.berkeley.edu/cio/biography.html) addressed the CalConnect Roundtable XX attendees as part of the group’s tradition...
Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms published
CalConnect and TC USECASE have published Version 2 of the Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms. This is a major revision of the first version,...
The Omni Group joins CalConnect
We are delighted to announce that The Omni Group has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Visit their website at http://www.omnigroup.com.
Registration is open for CalConnect XXI May 23-27 at NASA Ames Research Center
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXI, May 23-27, 2011, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, California.
Microsoft announces Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program
For anyone who did not see the original announcement, on April 13th Microsoft announced EAS, its Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/04/13/announcing-the-exchange-activesync-logo-program.aspx “to establish baseline for...
Four weeks to CalConnect XXI at NASA Ames
Only four weeks until CalConnect XXI, the week of May 23-27, 2011, at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California.
CalConnect Workshop on Tasks -- Wednesday May 25, 2011
CalConnect will hold an open Workshop on Tasks on Wednesday afternoon, 25 May, at NASA Ames, Mountain View, California.
CalConnect Adopts Creative Commons and Apache Licenses
CalConnect will now publish new and updated documents and other material under a Creative Commons license or, for code artifacts such as schemas, the Apache...
CalConnect XXI; Timezones by Reference
This post could also be titled “Doing Something about Timezones”. The biggest problem (from CalConnect’s perspective) with the change in 2007 to Extended Daylight Savings...
Schedule optimization and finding habitable planets; The Kepler Mission
At Roundtable XXI last week at NASA Ames, Charlie Sobek, the Kepler Mission Deputy Project Manager, gave us a presentation on the Kepler Mission to...
CalConnect announces special registration fees for CalConnect XXII in Prague
CalConnect has announced special reduced registration fees for some participants in the upcoming CalConnect XXII event, hosted by Kerio Technologies in Prague, Czech Republic on...
Index to Calendaring and Scheduling Standards
CalConnect has published a major revision and update to its Index to Calendaring and Scheduling Standards. This page provides links, titles, and very brief abstracts...
Calendar Technology is not a “War”
Several days ago the New York Times ran an article about paper versus electronic calendars which suggested a “war” between paper versus electronic calendars http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/fashion/calendar-wars-pit-electronics-against-paper.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2....
xCal -- iCalendar in XML -- published as RFC6321
Today the IETF published xCal, the iCalendar in XML specification, as RFC 6321 — http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6321. CalConnect congratulates the authors of the specification, and our XML Technical Committee,...
CalConnect Artifacts Repository and iCalendar in XML (RFC 6321) Schema
CalConnect has established a code artifacts repository as a place to publish code artifacts such as schema. The first schema set published is the iCalendar...
CalConnect is coming to Europe this October
We are excited and very pleased to announce our first full CalConnect conference in Europe! If you are interested in Calendaring and Scheduling, in the...
CalConnect Will Hold its First European Interoperability Test Event and Conference in Prague
CalConnect will hold its First European Interoperability Test Event and Conference in Prague.
Symposia and Workshops at CalConnect XXII in Prague
In addition to our regular Roundtable Technical Conference sessions, CalConnect is offering special Symposia/Workshops Thursday and Friday mornings October 6th and 7th. These sessions are...
Kerio Interview with Dave Thewlis, CalConnect Executive Director
Kerio Technologies, our host for the next CalConnect meeting in Prague, October 3-7 2011, has posted a short Q&A interview with Dave Thewlis, the Executive...
Interoperability Testing Underway at CalConnect XXII
Today is the second day of the interoperability testing event at CalConnect XXII in Prague, hosted by Kerio Technologies. Fifteen people present from eight organizations...
CalConnect Roundtable as of Thursday afternoon 6 October
The Roundtable technical conference is going well. We have 20 participants which for our very first full CalConnect event in Europe is pretty respectable, and...
CalConnect Statement on the Olson Timezone Database and related suit
CalConnect has always been interested in timezone data because accurate and timely timezone information is essential to calendaring and scheduling. We have done considerable work...
Friday afternoon; wrapping up CalConnect XXII in Prague
The meeting is drawing to a close with the last Technical Committee session, followed by the wrapup and our Plenary meeting. It’s been a great...
Vetting iCalendar files
In my blog post of December 27, 2010, In calendaring, success means the right thing, the right way!, I talked about downloading iCalendar .ics files...
CalConnect XXIII at Apple in Cupertino California -- January 30 to February 3, 2012
CalConnect XXIII will be the week of January 30 to February 3, 2012, at Apple in Cupertino, California. As usual, the first 2.5 days (Monday,...
CalConnect will return to Europe in Autumn 2012
Based on the success of our first European CalConnect event (October in Prague), we have decided that our Autumn 2012 event will also be in...
Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXIII
Our next Interoperability Testing Event will be at CalConnect XXIII, January 30-31 and Wednesday morning February 1. CalConnect XXIII will be hosted by Apple in...
Session schedule for CalConnect XXIII published
We have posted the schedule for the week for the next CalConnect meeting, January 30 — February 3, 2012, at Apple in Cupertino.