press-releases

The CalConnect Nottingham Conference has been rescheduled once more, to May 09-13, 2022, and another Virtual Conference scheduled for October 18-22, 2021.

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 developers, that have minimal staff and revenue. The membership fee is $1,000 per year.

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 Board has reached this decision after reviewing the current status of the pandemic, as available from the WHO and CDC, and concluded that the chance of having a successful in-person conference in 2020 is very slim.

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 allowing member states the option to select permanently remain on either "Standard Time" or "Summer Time", addressing issues of governance and challenges of technical implementation. Workshop attendees represented a number of major vendors and the IANA tz database.

CalConnect is now officially listed as an international standards body by the World Trade Organization.

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 against calendar abuse (CC/R 18003:2019)] to publication today.

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 tight timeline for the far-reaching change. CalConnect shares these concerns and recommends the European Commission extend the timelines stated in the proposal.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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) to produce one of the standards that will make it possible to monitor, predict and manage power consumption.

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 it possible to monitor, predict and manage power consumption, known as WS-Calendar.

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

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

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

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 CalConnect week.

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

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 Plzen, Czech Republic, on November 4-6, 2008

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 November 4-6, 2008, in the Czech Republic, hosted by Kerio Technologies.

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

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 incorporated the first ever CalConnect Mobile Calendaring Interoperabilty Test Event.

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

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

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

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 young organization to 35 companies, universities, and research facilities

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 CalConnect by the IETF. The Consortium has issued a press release concerning the significance of CalDAV and its relationship to the Consortium.

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

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 project.

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 of the obsolete vCalendar specification currently in use.

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 other calendaring standards, and today announced its CalDAV-based iCAL calendar server and an open source implementation of the server.

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.

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 using various calendaring applications.

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

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

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 the Roundtable, open to members and observers.

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

IBM and Trumba have joined CalConnect.

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 calendaring standards.

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 calendaring standards.

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 Policy Act of 2005 by the President.

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

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

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 times of Daylight Savings Time as of March 2005.

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 and scheduling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Seven vendors, six universities, two open source foundations, and a research facility form the founding membership of the 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. Thewlis the first Executive Director. The Consortium focuses on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and technologies.

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 Scheduling”

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 by the emerging Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

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

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