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2022-01-20

Conferences rescheduled again; Nottingham will be in October 2022

The CalConnect Nottingham Conference has been rescheduled once more, to October 10-14, 2022, and Virtual Conferences planned for Spring 2022.

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2021-07-07

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.

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2020-10-25

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...

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2020-09-08

The University of Wisconsin Madison joins CalConnect

CalConnect welcomes The University of Wisconsin Madison as a member. The University was a member of CalConnect from 2004 to 2015, and we are very...

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2020-03-15

Thunderbird Joins CalConnect

CalConnect welcomes Thunderbird, developer of the Thunderbird mail and calendar client.

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2019-07-30

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...

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2019-04-17

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.

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2019-01-18

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...

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2018-11-01

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.

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2018-10-30

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...

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2018-03-09

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.

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2017-11-15

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.

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2017-07-20

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.

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2017-06-29

CalConnect XXXIX in Seattle, Washington

CalConnect XXXIX in Seattle, Washington

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2017-04-12

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.

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2017-03-10

From Our President CalConnect XXXVIII in Irvine, California

This was the second time that the University of California, Irvine hosted a CalConnect event. UCI stipulates on its website 'We believe that true progress...

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2017-02-15

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...

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2017-01-30

What is Calendar spam?

Around last year’s Black Friday calendar spam was bothering many users of Apple’s iCloud as well as other mail providers e.g. mail.com, as a wave...

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2017-01-24

Meet Cronofy

How did Cronofy start? Cronofy, like many companies, was born out of the frustration of one of the founders. Adam (Bird), perpetually annoyed that managing...

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2017-01-16

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.

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2016-11-14

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....

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2016-10-28

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...

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2016-10-19

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...

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2016-10-14

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...

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2016-10-05

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...

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2016-08-17

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.

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2016-08-03

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...

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2016-07-22

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....

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2016-07-11

Announcing the CalConnect Calendaring Developer's Guide

CalConnect has recently published its new Calendaring Developer’s Guide..

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2016-06-27

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).

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2016-03-22

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

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2015-11-03

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.

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2015-07-30

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....

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2015-07-22

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...

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2015-06-24

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...

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2015-05-04

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...

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2015-04-27

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...

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2015-03-16

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

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2015-02-13

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

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2014-12-16

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....

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2014-11-17

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!

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2014-09-18

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...

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2014-08-26

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...

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2014-07-17

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,...

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2014-06-24

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....

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2014-06-19

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...

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2014-06-17

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...

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2014-06-13

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...

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2014-06-10

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...

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2014-05-12

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,...

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2014-05-07

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

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2014-03-18

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.

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2014-02-27

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...

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2014-01-16

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,...

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2013-11-12

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

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2013-08-21

CalConnect Welcomes fruux and Stylite

CalConnect welcomes fruux GMBH and Stylite AG as members of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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2013-08-15

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...

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2013-08-13

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....

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2013-07-23

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,...

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2013-06-28

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....

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2013-06-06

“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...

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2013-05-24

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.

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2013-05-21

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,...

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2013-05-15

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.

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2013-05-07

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.

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2013-05-02

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...

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2013-04-17

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...

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2013-04-15

CALCONNECT ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENT FEES

CALCONNECT ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND INTEROPERABILITY TEST EVENT FEES

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2013-04-15

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

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2013-03-06

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...

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2013-02-22

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...

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2013-02-15

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...

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2013-02-11

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...

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2013-02-10

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

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2013-01-14

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...

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2013-01-10

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...

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2012-12-26

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,...

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2012-11-16

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...

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2012-11-16

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...

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2012-10-26

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...

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2012-10-18

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...

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2012-10-18

Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXV in Zurich

This was a relatively large session with 22 on-site participants, 14 from Europe, representing the following organizations/implementations

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2012-09-27

DHL Express Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes DHL Express as a member of the Consortium.

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2012-08-30

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.

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2012-08-24

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...

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2012-08-09

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).

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2012-06-22

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.

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2012-06-18

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...

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2012-03-28

AOL Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes AOL as a member of the Consortium.

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2012-03-16

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...

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2012-02-22

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...

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2012-01-19

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.

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2011-12-12

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.

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2011-12-08

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...

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2011-12-03

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...

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2011-11-28

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,...

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2011-10-17

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...

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2011-10-07

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...

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2011-10-07

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...

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2011-09-23

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...

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2011-08-12

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...

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2011-08-10

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...

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2011-08-08

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,...

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2011-08-04

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....

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2011-06-01

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...

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2011-05-20

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...

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2011-04-27

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.

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2011-04-25

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.

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2011-04-05

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.

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2011-02-24

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,...

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2011-02-17

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...

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2011-02-11

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...

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2011-01-26

“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...

General information Special focus The world of calendaring
2011-01-11

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...

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2011-01-07

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...

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2010-12-27

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...

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2010-12-27

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.

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2010-12-09

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"

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2010-11-04

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...

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2010-10-24

Member Focus; Zimbra (a VMware division)

Zimbra is a software vendor that provides an open source email, calendaring & collaboration suite.

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2010-10-22

TimeTrade Systems Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes TimeTrade Systems as a member of the consortium.

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2010-10-20

Report on Roundtable XIX

A brief report on Roundtable XIX has been posted to the CalConnect website.

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2010-10-15

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...

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2010-10-15

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...

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2010-10-04

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...

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2010-09-28

Tungle Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Tungle Corp. as a member of the Consortium.

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2010-09-13

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...

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2010-09-10

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...

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2010-09-07

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...

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2010-07-22

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...

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2010-07-09

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...

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2010-06-18

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...

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2010-06-18

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...

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2010-06-14

Binary Tree Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is delighted to announce that Binary Tree has joined CalConnect.

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2010-06-04

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...

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2010-05-19

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...

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2010-05-10

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...

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2010-05-06

Genentech Joins CalConnect

I am delighted to announce that Genentech, Inc. has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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2010-04-25

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...

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2010-04-21

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/.

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2010-04-08

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...

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2010-03-25

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...

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2010-03-17

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...

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2010-02-10

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...

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2010-02-10

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...

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2010-01-11

Nokia Corporation joins CalConnect

I am delighted to announce that Nokia Corporation has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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2009-12-04

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...

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2009-12-04

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...

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2009-11-24

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....

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2009-11-23

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.

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2009-11-15

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...

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2009-10-19

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...

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2009-10-19

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....

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2009-09-07

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...

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2009-08-30

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....

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2009-08-18

Intand joins CalConnect

I’m delighted to announce that Intand, of Bellevue, Washington, has joined CalConnect.

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2009-07-22

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.

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2009-06-11

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

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2009-06-11

TC USECASE publishes Resource documents

TC RESOURCE has published three documents related to resources in calendaring and scheduling.

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2009-06-09

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...

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2009-06-09

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...

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2009-05-11

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...

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2009-04-24

Notify Technology joins CalConnect

I’m delighted to announce that Notify Technology has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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2009-04-15

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...

Announcements General information The world of calendaring
2009-04-13

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...

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2009-03-27

A two-fer in June -- attend CalConnect, then WWDC

Apple’s WorldWide Developers' Conference was just set for the second week of June (8-12), the week following CalConnect XV at Oracle in Redwood Shores. A...

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2009-03-02

Host and location set for CalConnect XV

CalConnect XV (IOP Test Event and Roundtable) will be hosted by Oracle Corporation on June 1-5, 2009, at Oracle’s HQ in Redwood Shores, California. We...

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2009-02-20

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This blog is for and about CalConnect — The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium — and occasional other posts related to the quest for interoperable calendaring and scheduling.

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