The World of Calendaring
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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...
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
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.
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...
Bedework Commercial Services joins CalConnect
Bedework Commercial Services (BCS), based in Troy, New York, offers cloud-hosted public and personal calendaring for organizations built atop software from the Bedework project. Bedework...
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. .
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 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!
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.
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.
CalConnect XL hosted by Open-Xchange in Cologne Germany
This year’s European conference was hosted by Open-Xchange. If you are unfamiliar with Open-Xchange, its mission is to deliver the integrated, open-source stack for messaging,...
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...
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 XXXIX in Seattle, Washington
CalConnect XXXIX in Seattle, Washington
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...
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...
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...
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...
After attending CalConnect XXXVII in Dresden Simpliday became a CalConnect member. Time to get to know Simpliday better.
With main base in Malmö, South Sweden we started for almost 2 years ago on a mission to fix the broken experience of getting through...
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,...
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...
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'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..
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'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.
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'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
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...
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 -- 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 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.
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....
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,...
Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXVIII
The Interoperability Test Event at CalConnect XXVIII featured 5 clients and 8 CalDAV servers tested by 13 on-site participants and two remote. In addition to...
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...
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...
“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.
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...
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...
On a recent petition to eliminate the time change caused by Daylight Saving Time
A petition has been initiated on the White House petition site to eliminate the twice-yearly time shift caused by Daylight Saving Time, either by eliminating...
CalConnect 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...
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/.
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...
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,...
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.
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 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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
CalConnect Roundtable as of Thursday afternoon 6 October
The Roundtable technical conference is going well. We have 20 participants which for our very first full CalConnect event in Europe is pretty respectable, and...
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...
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 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,...
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....
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 XXI; Timezones by Reference
This post could also be titled “Doing Something about Timezones”. The biggest problem (from CalConnect’s perspective) with the change in 2007 to Extended Daylight Savings...
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...
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...
Microsoft announces Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program
For anyone who did not see the original announcement, on April 13th Microsoft announced EAS, its Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/04/13/announcing-the-exchange-activesync-logo-program.aspx “to establish baseline for...
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,...
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...
Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published a new CalConnect proposal, Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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"
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...
Observations on “Online calendaring and booking”
A recent (October 25th) post in the CalendarReview blog, “Online calendaring and online booking”, discusses connecting user-based interfaces (such as ‘shopfronts', customer-to-business incarnations, and the...
Member Focus; Zimbra (a VMware division)
Zimbra is a software vendor that provides an open source email, calendaring & collaboration suite.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/.
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/.
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)...
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.
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...
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...
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...
DAViCal implements CalConnect's Proposal for Freebusy Read URL
As noted on Andrew McMillan’s blog at http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/blog/davical_097_released “Since DAViCal has always had Freebusy URLs, and in fact accepted a couple of simple parameters in...
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...
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...
Member News -- Calendaring at Duke University
During the past year, calendaring has taken hold on the campus at Duke University, with the launch of its institutional events calendar, Events@Duke (calendar.duke.edu), last...