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, for their hard work and perseverance.
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 of Calendaring and Calendaring-related standards, specifications, and guides. CalConnect intends to keep this page as up-to-date as possible and welcomes corrections and suggestions for updates.
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 October 3-7, 2011. The special rates are:
The next CalConnect event will be held the week of October 3-7, 2011, in Prague, Czech Republic, hosted by Kerio Technologies. This will be the first full CalConnect week held outside North America.
To allow for additional time for planning and arranging for international flights, we have opened registration for this meeting early. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect22.shtml for more information including hotel booking which is also available.
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 2 License, replacing its prior terms of document availability. The intent is to make it as easy as possible for CalConnect material to be used, by publishing under standard and universal license terms. Please see Copyright and Licensing for Published Material for more information.
CalConnect will hold an open Workshop on Tasks on Wednesday afternoon, 25 May, at NASA Ames, Mountain View, California.
Background:
Only four weeks until CalConnect XXI, the week of May 23-27, 2011, at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. If you are planning to come, you should get your registration done by May 6th as the early registration rate ends on that day, and registration will change from $350 to $395 for the Roundtable. We’re also going to be holding a workshop on Tasks on Wednesday afternoon the 25th, and of course our interoperability test event on Monday-Wednesday.
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXI, May 23-27, 2011, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect21.shtml for logistics and registration information.
As usual, we will be conducting an Interoperability Test Event Monday-Wednesday, May 23-25. Information about the Test Event is at http://www.calconnect.org/iop1105.shtml. The Roundtable Members’ Meeting will be Wednesday-Friday May 25-27.
We are delighted to announce that The Omni Group has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Visit their website at http://www.omnigroup.com.
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, originally published in 2006, and includes over 75 terms used in calendaring and scheduling today. External references to relevant standards and specifications are included in the online version.