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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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2020-11-29

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...

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2020-07-20

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...

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2019-03-15

Findings from CalConnect's EU Timezone workshop

CalConnect held a timezone workshop on February 5th 2019, in conjunction with its meeting in Zurich. This workshop was initiated to discuss the EU’s proposal...

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2019-01-21

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.

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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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2018-10-30

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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2018-05-17

Jorte to host CalConnect 42nd meeting in Tokyo

Jorte Corporation to host the 42nd meeting of CalConnect, the leading global producer of digital calendaring & scheduling standards, in Tokyo on June 4-8, 2018....

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2018-04-05

Taking on Calendar Spam, Scheduling Developers Organization CalConnect Collaborates with Messaging Anti-Abuse M3AAWG

CalConnect and M3AAWG have joined forces to develop new methods to protect end-users from unsolicited and malicious event notices.

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2012-08-06

CalConnect Announces New Diverse Technical Leadership

CalConnect Announces New Diverse Technical Leadership

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2012-08-06

CalConnect Announces New Diverse Technical Leadership

CalConnect launches new Steering Committee with major vendors, universities, and tech start-ups to bring interoperable calendaring and scheduling to consumers worldwide.

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2011-08-18

CalConnect Will Hold its First European Interoperability Test Event and Conference in Prague

CalConnect will hold its First European Interoperability Test Event and Conference in Prague.

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2010-10-05

Tungle Joins The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that Tungle Corporation has joined CalConnect.

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2010-09-13

CalConnect, OASIS Team Up on Key Smart-Grid Project

CalConnect and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, have been tasked jointly by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)...

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2010-09-13

CalConnect, OASIS Team Up on Key Smart-Grid Project

CalConnect and OASIS have been tasked jointly by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce one of the standards that will make...

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2009-07-02

CalConnect _Minutes_ to replace some press releases

The CalConnect “Minutes” newsletter, will provide information about CalConnect status and activities, such as new members, major initiatives, work status.

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2009-04-30

ZideOne Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that IceWarp has joined the Consoritum.

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2009-02-11

IceWarp Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that IceWarp has joined the Consortium.

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2008-12-18

CalConnect holds Timezone Workshop hosted by Microsoft

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced a one-day workshop on Timezones to be held on February 3, 2009, at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, during...

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2008-12-11

neutralSpace, Inc Joins CalConnect

neutralSpace, Inc, developer of dotCal, joins CalConnect to collaborate on calendaring and scheduling standards

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2008-11-24

CalConnect Holds Second Mobile Calendaring and Scheduling Interoperability Test Event

CalConnect Holds Second Mobile Calendaring and Scheduling Interoperability Test Event*: CalConnect’s Second Mobile Calendaring and Scheduling Interoperability Test Event was hosted by Kerio Technologies in...

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2008-07-28

Kerio Technologies To Host CalConnect’s Mobile Calendaring and Scheduling Interoperability Testing Event in Europe

CalConnect Announces Second Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event*: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium announced that its second Mobile Calendaring Interoperabilty Test Event will occur on...

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2008-05-30

CalConnect initiates CalConnect "`Minutes`" Newsletter

CalConnect has initiated publication of a regular newsletter to be published thrice yearly, after each CalConnect event.

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2008-02-19

CalConnect Testing Event Largest Ever; Mobile Interop Tests Set Precedent

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium announced that its most recent CalConnect Interoperability Test Event, February 4-5, 2008, was its largest IOP test event ever, and...

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2007-12-18

Stockholm University Joins US-Based Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that Stockholm University has joined the membership, bringing the total number of participating organizations to 40.

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2007-11-01

Microsoft Joins CalConnect to Focus on Global Time-Zone Solution

Microsoft Corporation has joined the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium to focus on a global time-zone solution.

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2007-10-16

Penn Joins CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that the University of Pennsylvania has joined the membership.

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2007-05-21

Four More Open-Standards Companies, One University Join CalConnect

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that Princeton University, Scalix Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Synchronica Plc, and Zimbra, Inc. have joined the membership, bringing the...

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2007-03-20

CalConnect Applauds Publication of IETF CalDAV Proposed Standard

CalConnect applauds publication of RFC 4791 Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV), the first full open standard protocol for calendaring and scheduling client/server systems developed by...

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2007-02-08

CalConnect Gives Guidance to IT Staff on Impact of DST Change

CalConnect has implemented advisory and vendor information about the potential impact of the DST change and how to deal with it.

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2007-01-01

Interview with Gary Schwartz of RPI about Bedework

CNI and Educause recently interviewed Gary Schwartz, the Director of Communications and Middleware Technologies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, about their Bedework open source calendar...

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2006-12-14

Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium Paper Specifies How, Why of iCalendar

The Mobile Technical Committee of the Consortium has released a paper documenting the benefits to the Mobile industry of adopting the iCalendar specification in place...

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2006-08-07

Apple Computer Joins CalConnect

Apple Computer has announced its membership in the Consortium. A member since January 2006, Apple has been strongly involved in the development of CalDAV and...

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2006-07-24

Federated Freebusy Demo with The Open Group

CalConnect and The Open Group successfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept application which aggregated and displayed Free/Busy information for multiple individuals across seven different calendaring systems.

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2006-07-24

The Open Group and The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium Move Closer to Solving Free/Busy Problem

CalConnect demonstrated a proof-of-concept application at The Open Group’s IT Architecture Practitioners Conference, showcasing the ability to aggregate and display free/busy information from multiple organizations...

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2006-05-21

Roundtable VI and Interoperability Testing Event

CalConnect announces the May 2006 Roundtable VI and Interoperability Testing event have been completed.

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2005-12-08

Roundtable V and its interoperability event have been completed

CalConnect announces the completion of Roundtable V and its interoperability event.

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2005-12-08

Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium’s Fifth Interop and Roundtable

CalConnect is now accepting registrations for its fifth Interop and Roundtable. Status of Technical Committees and their action plans will be the focal point of...

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2005-11-14

CalConnect Adds Two More Top University Members

Harvard Arts & Sciences Computing Services and New York University have joined CalConnect.

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2005-10-24

IBM and Trumba Join the Consortium

IBM and Trumba have joined CalConnect.

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2005-10-24

IBM Joins Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

IBM has joined the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium to work with other members to end the complexity, ambiguity, and lack of interoperability related to current...

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2005-10-24

Trumba Joins Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

Trumba has joined the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium to work with other members to end the complexity, ambiguity, and lack of interoperability related to current...

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2005-08-07

Media Coverage on the Consortium and the Energy Policy Act of 2005

The Executive Director of the Consortium was interviewed by the Associated Press for an article that received wide distribution following the signing of the Energy...

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2005-06-30

Roundtable III hosted by Duke University concludes

CalConnect Roundtable III at Duke University, 1-3 June, 2005, has concluded.

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2005-06-30

CalConnect Interop Makes Progress Solving Web-related Calendaring Problems

Completion of the third CalConnect Interop at Duke University in Durham, NC brings progress in solving Web-related calendaring problems.

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2005-06-29

Advisory Notices on DST and the Energy Policy Act of 2005

The Consortium issued a pair of Advisory Notices regarding the provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (House version) changing the start and end...

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2005-06-29

Energy Bill’s Proposed Daylight-Savings-Time Change Is Untimely

CalConnect suggests a delay in the effective date of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 due to the potential impact on software and hardware calendaring...

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2005-05-24

Roundtable III reported by media

Two media alerts were issued prior to the Roundtable and CalConnect Interoperability Event at Duke University on 1-3 June 2005.

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2005-05-24

Duke University to Host Calendaring and Scheduling Interop

Registration for the third CalConnect Interop hosted by Duke University in Durham, NC is now open.

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2005-05-23

Wall Street Journal publishes articles on CalConnect

Articles in the Wall Street Journal Career Journal and Wall Street Journal Online on CalConnect.

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2005-05-09

Ferris Research blog comments on CalConnect

Posting about Calendaring and Scheduling, and the Consortium, on the Ferris Research blog.

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2005-04-01

IEEE publishes article on CalDAV and the Consortium

The IEEE publishes an article on CalDAV which also talks about the Consortium.

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2005-03-29

Duke University to Host Calendaring and Scheduling Roundtable/Interop

Registration for the 1-3 June, 2005 Roundtable and associated Interop hosted by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is now open.

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2005-02-07

e-Pro Magazine writes on Roundtable II and CalConnect Interoperability Event

An article from e-Pro magazine on the just-completed CalConnect Interoperability Event and the Consortium Roundtable II in January.

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2005-02-02

eSchool News reports on CalConnect

eSchool News reports on the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium and its aims through interviewing several members.

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2005-01-18

Roundtable II and CalConnect Interoperability Event

The Consortium’s second Roundtable, 11-13 January 2005, hosted by the University of Washington, and the companion January 11-12 2005 Interop, have been concluded.

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2005-01-18

Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium Interop Features IETF Specifications

CalConnect has kicked off its 2005 schedule of events with interoperability testing focused on the CalDAV and iCalendar specifications.

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2005-01-09

Launch of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium - SymbianOne Newsletter

The SymbianOne Newsletter reports on the public launch of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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2005-01-02

Linux Business Week covers Consortium launch

The launch of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is picked up by Linux Business Week.

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2004-12-14

Top Vendors, Users Launch Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

Seven vendors, six universities, two open source foundations, and a research facility form the founding membership of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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2004-12-14

Top Vendors, Users Launch Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

Seven vendors, six universities, two open source foundations, and a research facility have joined to form the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, which named David C....

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2004-10-05

Roundtable discsussion on the future of interoperable calendaring and scheduling

Second event sponsored by the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. Hosted by Oracle Corporation in Montreal, “A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Interoperable Calendaring and...

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2004-10-05

Top Vendors, Users Act to End Problem of Incompatible Calendaring and Scheduling Products

On September 23-24, industry leaders and major academic customers of calendaring and scheduling products focused on the path to interoperability in a second event sponsored...

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2004-08-20

First CalConnect Interoperability Event

The first calendaring consortium-sponsored testing event on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and technologies.

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2004-08-20

Industry Leaders Score at Calendaring and Scheduling Interop

IBM, Oracle Demonstrate Conformance with Key Parts of IETF Specification; Interoperability Testing Highlights Need for Well-Focused Consortium

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