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The passing of Dave Thewlis
The passing of Dave Thewlis on June 17, 2025.
A Tribute to Dave Thewlis
On the occasion of his recent retirement, we pay tribute to Dave for his very special contributions as a founder and Executive Director of the...
Establishing TC UNITS and adopting UnitsML
CalConnect announces the establishment of its Technical Committee on Units of Measure (TC UNITS) and the adoption of UnitsML, the authoritative mechanism for encoding scientific...
CalConnect joins the Metaverse Standards Forum
CalConnect is now a principal member of the Metaverse Standards Forum. CalConnect standards are used ubiquitously and our mandate extends to the metaverse.
Registration is Open for the CalConnect Virtual Conference Spring 2022
The CalConnect Virtual Conference Spring 2022 web page contains information about the timing, structure, and sessions offered for this virtual conference. .
Virtual Session CalDAV Standards, Implementation, Q&A
Virtual Session: CalDAV Standards, Implementation, Q&A — 3 MARCH 2022
HeyLife Joins CalConnect
HeyLife, basd in Tel Aviv, Israel, empowers retirees and seniors through a rich set of smart calendars, to enrich their lives and connect with their...
Call for contributions for the CalendarFest 2021 (Autumn 2021)
The CalConnect Virtual Conference Autumn 2021 web page contains information about the timing, structure, and sessions offered for this virtual conference.
Registration is open for the October 2021 CalConnect Virtual Conference
The CalConnect Virtual Conference Autumn 2021 web page contains information about the timing, structure, and sessions offered for this virtual conference.
Conferences Rescheduled; Nottingham now May 2022
The CalConnect Nottingham Conference has been rescheduled once more, to May 09-13, 2022, and another Virtual Conference scheduled for October 18-22, 2021.
Marketcircle joins CalConnect
Marketcircle, based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, creates CRM software for small businesses. They offer Calendar Client software that implements IMIP/ITIP, as well as a CalDAV...
April Conference Schedule and Highlighted Sessions
The preliminary schedule for our April 2021 Virtual Conference is now available.
CalDav Synchronizer Joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes CalDav Synchronizer as a member. CalDav Synchronizer, based in Vienna, Austria, offers the CalDav Synchronizer application to synchronize data between Outlook and CalDav...
Registration is now open for the CalConnect Virtual Conference 2021, April 12-15, 2021
The CalConnect Virtual Conference 2021 web page contains information about the timing, structure, and sessions offered for this virtual conference. .
New CalConnect Membership Category; Small Organizational Member
CalConnect has added a new membership category, “small organizational member”, effective immediately. This membership category is intended for very small organizations such as independent client...
CalConnect Nottingham Rescheduled to October 18-22, 2021
The CalConnect Nottingham Conference has been rescheduled again, to October 18-22, 2021. All other arrangements (host, venue, conference hotel) remain unchanged. The Board has reached...
Patricia Egen, An Appreciation
Patricia Egen passed away on September 15, 2020.
Registration is now open for the CalConnect Virtual Conference October 12-15, 2020
The CalConnect Virtual Conference web page contains information about the timing, structure, and sessions offered for this virtual conference. .
CalConnect Nottingham Rescheduled to April 19-23, 2021
The CalConnect Nottingham Conference has been rescheduled again, from October 2020 to April 19-23, 2021. All other arrangements (host, venue, conference hotel) remain unchanged. The...
Thomas Schäfer 10th Recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
The Board of Directors has honored Thomas Schäfer as the recipient of our tenth Distinguished Service Award.
CalConnect Virtual Sessions in June
Updated June 10 to merge Monday 22 June session into Wednesday June 24 session
CalConnect XLVII Rescheduled to October 12-16, 2020
The CalConnect XXVII meeting in Nottingham is now rescheduled again, from June 2020 to October 12-16, 2020. All other arrangements (host, venue, conference hotel) remain...
Thunderbird Joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes Thunderbird, developer of the Thunderbird mail and calendar client.
CalConnect XLVII Rescheduled to June 15-19 2020
The CalConnect XXVII meeting in Nottingham is now rescheduled from April 20-24 to the week of June 15-19 2020. All other arrangements (host, venue, conference...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLVII in Nottingham, United Kingdom, April 20-24, 2020, hosted by Cronofy
The CalConnect XLVII web page contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, and meeting venue.
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLVI in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, October 7-11, 2019, hosted by FastMail
The CalConnect XLVI web page is located at link:/events/calconnect-xlvi-october-7-11-2019 and contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, and meeting venue. The CalConnect Conference itself will...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLV in Bedford, United Kingdom, June 3-7, 2019, hosted by Youcanbook.me
The CalConnect XLV web page contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, schedule, etc.
CalConnect is now listed as an official international standards body by the WTO
CalConnect is now officially listed as an international standards body by the World Trade Organization.
CalConnect publishes Calendar Spam Best Current Practices
TC-CALSPAM, the CalConnect Calendar Spam Technical Committee, is happy to announce that it has released its Best Current Practices Report [Calendar operator practices — Guidelines to protect...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLIV in Zurich, Switzerland, February 4-8, 2019, hosted by Google
The CalConnect XLIV web page contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, schedule, etc.
CalConnect calls on EU to reconsider timeline for proposed seasonal time changes
The European Commission has proposed to discontinue daylight saving time (DST), effective October 2019. Several governments and organizations have since expressed concerns about such a...
CalConnect Announces 60 Day Public Review and Comment of Calendar Spam Best Current Practices
TC-CALSPAM, the CalConnect Calendar Spam Technical Committee, is putting the final draft of its Best Current Practices document out for a 60 day public review...
Only 10 days to CalConnect XLIII in Karlsruhe September 24-27
It’s only 10 days to CalConnect XLIII in Karlsruhe, hosted by 1&1!
Ribose wins Six Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie® Awards at 2018 International Business Awards®
From BusinessWire
DHL Express Joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes DHL Express as a member of the Consortium. DHL Express, headquartered in Singapore, offers international express deliveries; global freight forwarding by air, sea,...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLIII in Karlsruhe, Germany, September 24-27, 2018, hosted by 1&1
The CalConnect XLIII web page contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, schedule, etc.
CalConnect XLII in Tokyo and the Data Event Summit with JEDC
After Ribose in Hong Kong in 2016, Jorte hosted CalConnect’s second Asian conference in Tokyo.
CalConnect teams up with M3AAWG to combat calendar spam
CalConnect and the global anti-abuse association M3AAWG have joined forces to develop new methods to protect end-users from unsolicited and malicious event notices.
The Challenge of Calendaring
Fastmail joined CalConnect just over three years ago and have been active in CalConnect and calendaring-related standards activities since then.
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLII in Tokyo, Japan, June 4-8, 2018, hosted by Jorte
The CalConnect XLII web page is located at link:/events/.calconnect-xlii-june-04-08-2018 and contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, etc.
TC CALSPAM - New Technical Committee on Calendar Spam
CalConnect has established a new Technical Committee on Calendar Spam, TC CALSPAM.
Ken Murchison 9th Recipient of CalConnect Distingushed Service Award
At CalConnect XLI, hosted by Oath in Sunnyvale, California, Ken Murchison of FastMail was honored as our 9th recipient of the Distinguished Service Award.
audriga Joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes audriga as a member of the Consortium. audriga, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, provides email, groupware, and storage migration for customers, hosters and telcos...
What FastMail is up to at CalConnect
FastMail joined CalConnect three years ago to become involved with and to help shape and improve Calendaring. They have been consistently active and one of...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLI in Sunnyvale, California, January 29 - February 2, 2018, hosted by Oath
The CalConnect XLI web page is located at link:/events/calconnect-xli-winter-2018 and contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, etc.
Oath Joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes Oath LLC as a member of the Consortium. Oath, based in New York City, is a Verizon company formed from AOL and several...
Ronald Tse of Ribose New CalConnect Director
Calconnect is very pleased to announce that Mr. Ronald Tse, CEO of Ribose has been elected a Director of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium Inc....
Registration is now open for CalConnect XL Cologne, Germany, September 25-29, 2017, hosted by Open-Xchange
The CalConnect XL web page is located at link:/events/calconnect-xl-september-25-29-2017 and contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, international travel information, etc.
CalConnect to submit New Work Item Proposal to ISO/TC 211
CalConnect, which is working on extensions to the vCard standard used for digital contact exchange, has been invited by ISO/TC 211 to submit a NWIP...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXXIX Seattle, Washington, June 12-16, 2017, hosted by Tandem
The CalConnect XXXIX web page is located at link:/events/calconnect-xxxix-june-12-16-2017 and contains lodging information, airport and transfer information, meeting venue, international travel information, etc.
Gary Schwartz Eighth Recipient of CalConnect Distingushed Service Award
Last month at CalConnect XXXVIII, at the University of California, Irvine, Gary Schwartz of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute became the eighth recipient of the CalConnect Distinguished...
An Ode to WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV
HostingAdvice.com has just published an excellent feature on the origins and evolution of WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV, and the activites and work of webdav.org, and...
Only four weeks to CalConnect XXXVIII at University of California Irvine
It’s now only four weeks until CalConnect XXXVIII at UC Irvine - and two weeks until early registration closes and the registration fee increases.
CalConnect Announces Liaison with ISO TC 211
CalConnect has established a Category A Liaison with ISO TC 211, Geographic Information / Geomatics, and nominated a technical representative to TC 211 WG 7,...
Registration Open for CalConnect XXXVIII in Irvine, California, February 13-17, 2017
Registration is now open and hotel rooms may be booked for CalConnect XXXVIII Irvine, California, February 13-17, 2017, hosted by the University of California, Irvine....
New Properties for iCalendar Announced as RFC 7986
The IETF has announced that New Properties for iCalendar, a CalConnect specification submitted to the IETF, has been approved and published as RFC 7986. This...
CalConnect Announces VCARD Technical Committee
A new Technical Committee, VCARD, has been formed to extend the VCARD standards. VCARD today essentially supports only North American and Western Europe address formats;...
CalConnect Announces TESTER Technical Committee
A new Technical Committee, TC TESTER, has been formed to improve testing tools for CalDAV and CardDAV. The TC is building on the CalDAV Tester...
CalDAV and CardDAV Protocol/Implementations Websites Superceded
For some time CalConnect has supported two protocol and implementation oriented sites, caldav.calconnect.org and carddav.calconnect.org. These sites provides some information about the protocols themselves but...
From Our President CalConnect XXXVII in Dresden
In beautiful late summer weather dmfs hosted CalConnect XXXVII at Schloss Eckberg, one of three castles built about 160 years ago at the border of...
New Chair of TC CHAIRS
I’m honored to announce that as of yesterday, September 26th 2016, Thomas Schäfer of 1&1 is the new Chair of TC CHAIRS. The Chair of...
Simpliday joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes Simpliday as a member of the consortium. Simpliday, based in Malmö, Sweden, believes that the calendar is the best interface for day-to-day interaction...
VAVAILABILITY (Calendar Availability) Announced as RFC 7953
The IETF has announced that VAVAILABILITY, a CalConnect specification submitted to the IETF, has been approved and published as RFC 7953.
CalConnect Revises Membership Categories and Dues, Event Fees
In April 2013 we introduced the emergent vendor category for aspiring members. The introduction met our objectives, which were to encourage membership and to increase...
CalConnect's First non-North American President
The CalConnect Board of Directors announces they have appointed Rutger Geelen, principal of SchedJoules in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, President of CalConnect, effect July 15th, 2016....
Announcing the CalConnect Calendaring Developer's Guide
CalConnect has recently published its new Calendaring Developer’s Guide..
Registration Open for CalConnect XXXVII in Dresden, September 12-16, 2016
Registration is now open and hotel rooms may be booked for CalConnect XXXVII Dresden, September 12-16, 2016, hosted by dmfs (SmoothSync).
Cronofy On Joining CalConnect
Cronofy, our newest member, has blogged about their experience coming to their first CalConnect event in Hong Kong last month, and about their reasons for...
Cronofy Joins CalConnect
CalConnect welcomes Cronofy as a member of the consortium. Cronofy, based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, provides a unified calendar API to allow application developers to...
Interview with Ronald Tse of Ribose about the CalConnect event in Hong Kong in two weeks
In less than 2 weeks, CalConnect XXXVI in Hong Kong, our very first conference in Asia, will begin with our Developer’s Conference, followed by a...
Two CalConnect Specifications have become IETF RFCs (proposed standards)
The IETF has announced that two CalConnect specifications submitted to the IETF have been approved and published as RFCs (proposed standards).
Only Four Weeks To CalConnect XXXVI in Hong Kong
Only four weeks left until CalConnect XXXVI in Hong Kong, April 18-22, 2016, hosted by Ribose and OGCIO
CalConnect Specifications in IETF CALEXT Working Group Last Call
The IETF CALEXT Working Group has issued a Last Call for Comments on two CalConnect specifications Calendar Availability (VAVAILABILITY)
CalConnect Blog Superceded by New Website News Feed
We have superceded our old blog, calconnect.wordpress.com, with the news feed from our new website, www.calconnect.org/news.
CalConnect's first Asian event; CalConnect XXXVI in Hong Kong
Registration is now open for CalConnect’s first event in Asia CalConnect XXXVI, April 18-22 2016, in Hong Kong, hosted by Ribose and OGCIO (the Office...
CalConnect Implements New Website
We welcome you to the new CalConnect website at www.calconnect.org. The new site is easier to navigate and is mobile device friendly.
Only three weeks to CalConnect XXXV January 11-15 2016
If you’re planning to come to AOL in Palo Alto for CalConnect XXXV, it’s time to register and make your arrangements.
Registration is open for CalConnect XXXV at AOL in Palo Alto, California, January 11-15, 2016
Registration is now open and hotel reservations may be made for CalConnect XXXV in Palo Alto, California, January 11-15, 2016, hosted by AOL.
Highlighted Sessions at CalConnect XXIV in Amsterdam
We have several sessions planned for the CalConnect Conference in Amsterdam (September 30 — October 2) that we feel are of special interest and should be highlighted...
Registration is open for CalConnect XXXIV in Amsterdam 28 September -- 2 October 2015
Registration is now open and hotel reservations may be made for CalConnect XXXIV in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep 28 — Oct 2 2015, hosted by Gershon Janssen....
CalConnect Welcomes Open-Xchange
CalConnect welcomes Open-Xchange to the Consortium. Open-Xchange, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, offers OX App Suite, a device independent, highly scalable middleware platform that integrates...
CalConnect Welcomes Spherical Cow Group
CalConnect welcomes Spherical Cow Group to the Consortium. Spherical Cow Group, based in New York, NY, is an IT consultancy particularly around calendaring and identity...
CalConnect Welcomes Jorte
CalConnect welcomes Jorte to the Consortium. Jorte Inc, based in Tokyo Japan, is a software development company focused on the Jorte app and its affiliate...
Highlighted Sessions at the CalConnect XXXIII Conference in Bucharest
CalConnect XXXIII consists of an Interoperability Test Event Monday through Wednesday noon May 18-20, and a CalConnect Conference Wednesday afternoon through Friday May 20-22. The...
CalConnect's fifth European event is this spring! You're invited to join us in Bucharest, Romania, at 1and1, May 18-22, 2015
CalConnect — The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium — is returning to Europe this spring
Observations from CalConnect XXXII in San Jose, California
CalConnect held its thirty-second Conference (XXXII) and Interoperability Test Event the week of January 26-30, 2015, hosted by Kerio Technologies in San Jose, California. This...
Kerio Technologies Press Release about CalConnect XXXII -- our Tenth Anniversary Event
Kerio Technologies hosted CalConnect XXXII, our Tenth Anniversary Event, in San Jose, California last month, and posted this press release about the event
CalConnect Welcomes ZeeZide
CalConnect welcomes ZeeZide GmbH as a member of the Consortium. ZeeZide, based in Magdeburg, Germany, is a software development company interested in interoperability testing and...
Only a week until CalConnect XXXII and our 10th Anniversary Celebration
CalConnect XXXII is next week — January 26-30, in San Jose, California. And the 10th anniversary celebration is Wednesday the 28th from noon to six,...
CalConnect Welcomes FastMail
CalConnect welcomes FastMail as a member of the Consortium. FastMail, based in Melbourne, Australia, is a hosted e-mail service with additional features including calendaring support....
CalConnect Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary in January 2015!
CalConnect’s first conference was held in January 2005 so the upcoming 32nd conference will be our tenth anniversary meeting — and we’re planning a celebration!
Observations from CalConnect XXXI in Bedford, United Kingdom
CalConnect held its thirty-first Conference and Interoperability Test Event the week of September 29 — October 3, hosted by Youcanbook.me in Bedford, United Kingdom.
Mike Douglass of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Fifth Recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
At CalConnect XXXI, hosted by Youcanbook.me in Bedford, United Kingdom, Mike Douglass of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was honored as our 5th recipient of the Distinguished...
CalConnect Welcomes SmoothSync
CalConnect welcomes SmoothSync as a member of the Consortium. SmoothSync, based in Dresden, Germany, offers a synchronization tool for Android apps syncing with iCloud and...
Less than Four Weeks to CalConnect XXXI in Bedford, September 29 -- October 3, 2014
We’re within four weeks of the next CalConnect event, which will be hosted by Youcanbook.me in Bedford, England; here’s a link to the original blog...
CalConnect Welcomes Burbio
CalConnect welcomes Burbio as a member of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Burbio, based in Pelham, New York, offers a calendar sharing and synchronization platform...
CalConnect -- The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium -- is returning to Europe this autumn
Our first three European conferences, in 2011, 2012, and 2013, were very successful, and our European colleagues encouraged us to return again this autumn. Therefore,...
Observations from CalConnect XXX in Dulles, Virginia
CalConnect held its thirtieth Interoperability Test Event and Conference (formerly “Roundtable”) the week of May 19-23, hosted by AOL at their facility in Dulles, Virginia....
RRULES and RSCALE examples for Non-Gregorian Recurring Events in iCalendar
CalConnect has just published a set of example RRULEs and the expected expansion set for ensuring compliance of calendar servers with the new RSCALE component...
CalConnect Welcomes 1&1
CalConnect welcomes 1&1 Internet AG as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. 1&1, based in Montbaur, Germany, offers internet and portal services to...
Developers' Guides for CalDAV and CardDAV clients
SabreDAV have provided links to two new documents on creating a CalDAV client and creating a CardDAV client. While they reference SabreDAV they are general...
CalConnect welcomes MedRed
CalConnect welcomes MedRed LLC as a member of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. MedRed, based in Washington, DC, makes innovative, high quality informatics software for...
Mimi Mugler of the University of California, Berkeley, Fourth Recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
CalConnect is honored to announce that Mimi Mugler of the University of California, Berkeley, is the fourth recipient of the CalConnect Distinguished Service Award. The...
Starter List of CalDAV and CardDAV Standards and Specifications
CalConnect recently published a Starter List of CalDAV and CardDAV Standards and Specifications, a list of specifications and protocols recommended to people getting started with...
Workshop on Veterans Administration Scheduling System at CalConnect XXX on May 21, 2014 -- Agenda & Participants
CalConnect was founded almost 10 years ago as a collaboration between calendaring and scheduling vendors and users, to further interoperability between calendaring and scheduling implementations,...
CalConnect Workshop on the Veterans Administration Scheduling System -- background and update
The Workshop will be Wednesday afternoon May 21st at CalConnect XXX at AOL in Dulles, Virginia
Registration Opens for CalConnect XXX at AOL in Dulles, Virginia -- May 19-23 2014
Registration is now open and hotel reservations are available for CalConnect XXX in Dulles, Virginia, May 19-23, 2014.
Observations from CalConnect XXIX in San Francisco
CalConnect held its twenty-ninth interoperability test event and Roundtable Technical Conference the week of February 3-7 in San Francisco, California. The event was hosted by...
A chance to observe -- CalConnect in San Francisco next week
If you’re based or currently in the Bay Area and are interested in calendaring, next week is your chance to be an observer at the...
CalConnect Welcomes Milton.io
CalConnect welcomes Miltio.io as a member of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Milton.io, based in Red Beach, New Zealand, offers server protocol software for java,...
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.
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....
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 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...
CalConnect welcomes Softly Software
CalConnect welcomes Softly Software as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
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,...
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...
CalConnect Welcomes fruux and Stylite
CalConnect welcomes fruux GMBH and Stylite AG as members of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
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 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....
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 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....
“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...
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.
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,...
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 BusyMac
CalConnect welcomes BusyMac as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. BusyMac, headquartered in Bainbridge Island, Washington, develops calendaring products for MacOS.
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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
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/.
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...
Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms Updated
Version 2.1 of the Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms has been published. Version 2.1 adds 20 new terms including Autodiscovery, Consensus Scheduling, Event Publication,...
CalConnect Consensus Scheduling Workshop -- January 30, 2013, at CalConnect Roundtable XXVI
CalConnect, the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium will hold an open Workshop on Consensus Scheduling in conjunction with its member meeting, Roundtable XXVI, on Wednesday afternoon,...
Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXVI, January 28-30, 2013
The Interoperability Test Event will take place all day Monday and Tuesday, January 28-29, and Wednesday morning January 30th during CalConnect XXVI, hosted by Oracle...
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXVI, January 28-February 1, 2013
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXVI, January 28 — February 1, 2013, hosted by Oracle in Santa Clara, California. Monday and Tuesday all day and Wednesday...
VTODO Ad Hoc Committee Established
CalConnect has established an Ad Hoc Committee to review the state of the VTODO component of iCalendar, together with outstanding requirements and use cases from...
CalConnect Roundtable XXV in Zurich
Our CalConnect events generally consist of two parts; the first half of the week is interoperability testing, and the last half is the Roundtable Technical...
DHL Express Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes DHL Express as a member of the Consortium.
Symposia at CalConnect XXV in Zurich
Please note that the Thursday and Friday 1030-1200 sessions have been exchanged; Calendaring Futures is now on Thursday and Best Practices on Friday.
Calling All Calendaring Clients -- particularly those in Europe
We would like to send a special invitation to folks with calendaring and scheduling clients to attend CalConnect XXV in Zurich on October 1-5, 2012,...
Aggregated Service Discovery
CalConnect’s AUTODISCOVERY Technical Committee has submitted the initial draft of a specification on Aggregated Service Discovery for clients and mobile devices to the IETF.
CalConnect is returning to Europe; October 1-5, 2012, Zürich, Switzerland, hosted by Google
Our first European conference was last October, hosted by Kerio Technologies in Prague. It was very successful and the European attendees encouraged us to return...
CalConnect Leadership Changes to Board of Directors and Steering Committee
CalConnect announces new members on its Board of Directors, and on its Steering Committee (charged with the technical direction of the consortium).
CalConnect Returns to Europe this October
Registration has now opened for CalConnect XXV, which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on October 1-5, hosted by Google.
Scheduling Extensions to CalDAV published as RFC 6638
The IETF has published Scheduling Extensions to CalDAV as RFC 6638; see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6638.txt Congratulations to Bernard Desruisseaux and Cyrus Daboo for their hard work, and...
Patricia Egen of Patricia Egen Consulting Second Recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
CalConnect is honored to announce that Patricia Egen, of Patricia Egen Consulting and the founder of CalConnect, is the second recipient of the CalConnect Service...
AOL Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes AOL as a member of the Consortium.
Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXIV May 21-23 2012
At the upcoming CalConnect XXIV event we will as usual be offering an Interoperability Test Event all day Monday and Tuesday May 21-22, and Wednesday...
Registration is open for CalConnect XXIV May 21-25, 20012, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Registration is now open for CalConnect XXIV, May 21-25, 2012, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, hosted by Patricia Egen Consulting. Please see CalConnect XXIV for logistics and...
CalWS-SOAP SOAP Web Services Protocol for Calendaring available for Public Review
The SOAP version of the Web Services Protocol for Calendaring is now available for public review and comment for a period of at least one...
Bernard Desruisseaux of Oracle first recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
CalConnect is honored to announce that Bernard Desruisseaux of Oracle was the first recipient of the CalConnect Distinguished Service Award.
CalConnect will return to Europe this autumn CalConnect XXV, October 1-5, 2012, Google, Zurich, Switzerland
We are very pleased to announce that Google will host CalConnext XXV this autumn at their offices in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 1-5, 2012.
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.
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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,...
Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published a new CalConnect proposal, Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
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...
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.
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.
TimeTrade Systems Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes TimeTrade Systems as a member of the consortium.
Report on Roundtable XIX
A brief report on Roundtable XIX has been posted to the CalConnect website.
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...
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...
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...
Tungle Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Tungle Corp. as a member of the Consortium.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Binary Tree Joins CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is delighted to announce that Binary Tree has joined CalConnect.
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...
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...
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...
Genentech Joins CalConnect
I am delighted to announce that Genentech, Inc. has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
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...
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/.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/.
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...
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)...
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...
CalConnect to hold Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event
CalConnect will hold a Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event at CalConnect XVIII from February 1-2, 2010, in parallel with the regular Interoperability Test Event. This...
Registration Opens for CalConnect XVII, Feb 1-5, 2010
Registration is now open for CalConnect XVIII, February 1-5, 2010. CalConnect XVII will be hosted by the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California. Logistics...
October 2009 CalConnect Interoperability Test Report Published
The IOPTEST Technical Committee has published the public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event in October 2009. See October 2009 CalConnect Interoperability Test Report....
OASIS joins CalConnect
OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, has joined CalConnect as part of a reciprocal membership agreement between the two organizations.
CalConnect Minutes from Roundtable XVI
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...
Update on Sun's CalDAV Plug-in for Symbian
Sun has posted an update on their CalDAV client plug-in for the Symbian Operating system on the Symbian blog. See http://blog.symbian.org/2009/10/22/caldav-support-for-symbian-a-contribution-by-sun-microsystems/ for the full text....
Calendaring & Scheduling Developers Discussion List
CalConnect has launched a public discussion list intended for Calendaring and Scheduling systems developers and kindred spirits. More information and a link to subscribe to...
Report on CalConnect Roundtable XVI
CalConnect has posted a short report on Roundtable XVI, held October 7-9 at Apple in Cupertino, CA. The report may be found at Roundtable XVI....
The IETF has published the revision to iCalendar
RFC5545, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) has been published by the IETF as a Proposed Standard Protocol. This is the revision to...
Only four weeks to CalConnect XVI!
CalConnect XVI, the week of October 5th at Apple in Cupertino, California, is only four weeks away! If you are planning to come to the...
June 2009 CalConnect Interoperabilty Test Report Published
The IOPTEST Technical Committee has published the public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event in June 2009. See June 2009 CalConnect Interoperabilty Test Report....
Sun Microsystems contributing CalDAV support to Symbian OS
Sun Microsystems has committed to providing CalDAV support for the Symbian OS, thus providing direct support for CalDAV servers on mobile devices running the Symbian...
Intand joins CalConnect
I’m delighted to announce that Intand, of Bellevue, Washington, has joined CalConnect.
Registration is open for CalConnect XVI October 5-9 2009
Registration is now open for CalConnect XVI, October 5-9, 2009, at Apple in Cupertino, California.
Ms. Kellie Hunter of PeopleCube elected to CalConnect Board
Ms. Kellie Hunter of PeopleCube has been elected to the CalConnect Board of Directors and has assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer. The new...
Public Review and Comment on Calendaring Glossary
The CalConnect Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms was originally published in 2006 and is strongly in need of an update to reflect changes and...
ZideOne Public Beta 9 now available
CalConnect member ZideOne has announced the availability of its public beta 9
Report on Roundtable XV
A brief report on Roundtable XV, hosted by Oracle in Redwood Shores, California, on June 3-5, 2009, has been posted on the CalConnect website
TC USECASE publishes Resource documents
TC RESOURCE has published three documents related to resources in calendaring and scheduling.
Next two CalConnect meeting venues confirmed
CalConnect XVI will be held on October 5-9, 2009, hosted by Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California. Registration should open for this event at the beginning...
TC XML has published “iCalendar XML Representation”
TC XML has published its Proposal for iCalendar XML Representation, and the proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft. Please see...
Member News -- Mozilla Seeks Lightning Hacker
Mozilla Messaging wants to help ensure that current users of the Lightning calendaring extension for Thunderbird 2 will be able to migrate to a new...
Topical Agendas for Technical Committees at Roundtable XV
The Topical Agendas for the Technical Committee sessions at the upcoming Roundtable XV have been published and are on the logistics page for CalConnect XV...
Revision to iCalendar (rfc2445bis) approved as Proposed Standard by IESG
The IESG has just announced that the revised draft of RFC 2445, Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (currently called rfc2445bis) has been...
Schedule for CalConnect XV now available
The schedule for CalConnect XV (June 1-5 2009) is now available on the CalConnect website or as a downloadable iCalendar file.
Notify Technology joins CalConnect
I’m delighted to announce that Notify Technology has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
CalConnect publishes Proposal for Freebusy Read URL
CalConnect’s FREEBUSY Technical Committee has just published a Proposal* for Freebusy Read URL. This Proposal defines a standardized form of Freebusy Read URL to improve...
February 2009 Interoperability Test Event Report
CalConnect has published the public version of the Interoperability Test Event Report from February 2009. Full internal reports are only available to representatives of members...
Member News Announcements
The CalConnect Blog will be publishing short announcements from our members about significant news and events in the calendaring space. This may include but will...
ZideOne Joins CalConnect
I’m delighted to announce that ZideOne GmbH has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
NASA joins CalConnect
I’m delighted to announce that NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
Planned outage for CalConnect server Thursday March 26
We are planning for a 4-hour outage Thursday evening March 26 from 19:00-23:00 Eastern Time. That will be 16:00-20:00 Pacific Time and 23:00-03:00 UTC. We...
Registration is open for CalConnect XV, June 1-5, 2009
Registration is now open for CalConnect XV comprised of Roundtable XV and a CalConnect Interoperability Test Event, hosted by Oracle in Redwood Shores, California, on...