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CalWS-SOAP SOAP Web Services Protocol for Calendaring V1.0 published
CalWS-SOAP SOAP Web Services Protocol for Calendaring V1.0 has been published as a CalConnect Proposal by the XML Technical Committee. This document defines a SOAP...
Interoperable Calendaring means never, never, ever having to enter an appointment on more than one machine
In the context of CalConnect’s mission, to advance interoperable calendaring & scheduling in practical and useful ways, one of our major activities is to promote...
VPOLL; Consensus Scheduling Component for iCalendar
The VPOLL draft specification defining a new consensus scheduling component for iCalendar has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-york-vpoll/.
Veterans' Administration Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest
As some of our members already know, the United State Veterans Health Administration has announced a ‘VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest” (http://vascheduling.challenge.gov/) to
CalConnect Establishes TC TASKS Technical Committee
CalConnect has established a new Technical Committee, TC TASKS, following the report-out of the VTODO Ad Hoc Committee. The TC’s Charter is to “Extend the...
CalConnect Returns to Europe and to Prague
CalConnect will hold its Autumn, 2013 Interoperability Test Event and Technical Conference (Roundtable) on September 23-27, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic, hosted by DHL Express...
CalConnect Calendar Developers and System Administrators Public Discussion Lists
CalConnect offers two general public discussion lists for calendaring and scheduling, one primarily for calendaring system developers and one for system administrators of calendaring and...
CalConnect establishes CALSCALE Ad Hoc Committee to consider non-Gregorian calendar rules
CalConnect has established the CALSCALE Ad Hoc Committee to determine changes and extensions necessary to iCalendar to allow recurrences to accommodate non-Gregorian calendar rules, and...
Reports on CalConnect XXVI
Reports on the recent CalConnect XXVI Roundtable and Interoperability Test Event, hosted by Oracle in Santa Clara, California, January 28-February 1, 2013, have been published...
On a recent petition to eliminate the time change caused by Daylight Saving Time
A petition has been initiated on the White House petition site to eliminate the twice-yearly time shift caused by Daylight Saving Time, either by eliminating...
CALCONNECT ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENT FEES
CALCONNECT ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENT FEES
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR CALCONNECT XXVII, JUNE 3-7, 2013, HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN MADISON, WISCONSIN
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR CALCONNECT XXVII, JUNE 3-7, 2013, HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN MADISON, WISCONSIN
About CalConnect's New Membership Categories and Fees
Earlier this week, we announced new membership categories and interoperability test event fees. We have been discussing and shaping these changes, the first since CalConnect...
Making Digital Calendars Smarter
Earlier this week, Jason Snell posted an article on Macworld titled Why Aren’t Digital Calendars Smarter?. From CalConnect’s perspective it is particularly notable that, although...
CalConnect Welcomes BusyMac
CalConnect welcomes BusyMac as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. BusyMac, headquartered in Bainbridge Island, Washington, develops calendaring products for MacOS.
CalConnect Welcomes SchedJoules
CalConnect welcomes SchedJoules as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. SchedJoules, headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, offers an online public calendar store.
CalConnect Welcomes Software AG
CalConnect welcomes Software AG as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, is a worldwide provider of ERM,...
7 Things You Should Know About Tasks
The CalConnect TASKS technical committee has just published a new briefing document, 7 Things You Should Know About Tasks, intended for a general audience.
“Making Google's CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone”
Google announced earlier this week an update, clarification and expansion of their earlier “spring cleaning” announcement about CalDAV. . Piotr Stanczyk, the blogger, is Google’s...
CalConnect Welcomes Atlas
CalConnect welcomes Atlas as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Atlas, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, develops scheduling applications for IOS and Android....
CalConnect -- The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium -- is returning to Europe for its third European event
Our first two European conferences, in 2011 and 2012, were very successful, and our European colleagues attendees encouraged us to return again this autumn. Therefore,...
CalConnect Welcomes Ribose
CalConnect welcomes Ribose as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Ribose Inc, based in Hong Kong, offers a social collaboration platform for consumers....
Is CalConnect Right for You? Are you Right for CalConnect?
Earlier this week, we welcomed Ribose as the newest CalConnect member, and our first member organization based in Asia. Including Ribose, five organizations have joined...
CalConnect Welcomes fruux and Stylite
CalConnect welcomes fruux GMBH and Stylite AG as members of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
Cyrus Daboo of Apple Third Recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
CalConnect is honored to announce that Cyrus Daboo of Apple is the third recipient of the CalConnect Service Award. The award was presented at CalConnect...
Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXVIII
The Interoperability Test Event at CalConnect XXVIII featured 5 clients and 8 CalDAV servers tested by 13 on-site participants and two remote. In addition to...
Exploring New Work Areas for CalConnect
At last week’s CalConnect Roundtable XXVIII in Prague, we established Ad Hoc Committees to explore three new potential areas of work, APIs Federated Shared Calendars,...
CalConnect welcomes Softly Software
CalConnect welcomes Softly Software as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
CalConnect closes XML Technical Committee; work completed
TC-XML was chartered to develop a two-way reference mapping of iCalendar to XML (and later to JSON), and to develop a core abstract calendaring API...
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR CALCONNECT XXIX IN SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 3-7, 2014
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR CALCONNECT XXIX, FEBRUARY 3-7, 2014, HOSTED BY MOZILLA IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
CalConnect seeks assistance from travel industry technology experts
CalConnect needs your help! We are seeking guidance and assistance from travel industry technology experts to explore the travel itinerary model within calendaring and scheduling....
CalConnect establishes technical committee to develop PUSH for CalDAV (and CardDAV)
TC PUSH was formed to extend CalDAV and CardDAV with standardized support for PUSH notifications.