Welcome to CalConnect

Coming Events CalConnect XXX – Interoperability Test Event and CalConnect Conference, May 19-23, 2014, hosted by AOL, Dulles, Virginia. CalConnect XXXI – Interoperability Test Event and CalConnect Conference, September 29 - October 3, 2014, Softly Software, Bedford, United Kingdom. CalConnect XXXII – Interoperabbility Test Event and CalConnect Conference, January 26-30, 2015, hosted by Kerio Technologies, San Jose, California.

What we are working on now – major projects underway in CalConnect Technical Committees – become a member and help make these things happen Autodiscovery - One-stop setup for devices and new service providers for calendaring, e-mail, etc. based on internet standard protocols CalDAV Alarms - Extend alarm support to allow for cross-device dismissal, proximity triggers based on location, default alarms in CalDAV CalDAV Attachments - Extends the calendaring server to manage attachments CalDAV/CardDAV Sharing - Sharing calendars and contacts between users CalWS-REST and CalWS-SOAP - We need to (finally) provide platform and system-independent calendaring and scheduling operations APIs for web services - it's long past time Consensus Scheduling (VPOLL) - TimeTrade, Doodle, WhenisGood do it, it should be interoperable - scheduling driven by the attendees who get to vote on the best times and locations for group events Event Publishing Extensions - Calendaring standards need to support the rich environment of Web 2.0 (and beyond) for the publication of public events - rich text, participants and image support iSCHEDULE - We need server to server scheduling between dissimilar systems - we have had client to server scheduling for a long time jCal - More web 2.0 - We need a standard representation of iCalendar in JSON. It's a natural follow-on to the recently completed xCal (iCalendar in XML) Non-Gregorian Calendars - Establish a way for recurrences to work with non-Gregorian calendar systems, in particular lunar/solar calendars OASIS WS-Calendar - Working with OASIS to develop their new WS-Calendar standard (scheduling for the Smart Grid), based on xCal, CalWS-REST and CalWS-SOAP PUSH for CalCAV (and CardDAV) - Extend CalDAV and CardDAV with standardized support for PUSH notifications Tasks (VTODOs) - Extend the functionality of VTODOs to support needs such as project management, smart power grids and business task scheduling. Timezone service and registry - Full timezone support via dynamic server calls rather than embedding timezone information in events - no more having event times wrong when timezones change and your software isn't updated Use cases Use cases to establish the "holy grail" for scheduling - ad hoc scheduling with anybody VAVAILABILITY - New iCalendar component to describe availability, to 'condition' freebusy lookup and scheduling (e.g. you may be 'free' at 3 a.m. but you aren't available for a meeting) vCard Resources - Define the vCard representation of calendaring resources to ease the discovery and scheduling of resources between any calendar client and server. More information about current work

Recent Highlights 07 Feb-2014 CalConnect Terminology Changes: CalConnect has retired the name "Roundtable" as used for its thrice-yearly conference and members' meeting and will use the term "CalConnect Conference" or "Conference" going forward. The term "Ad Hoc" to describe a short-term exploratory committee has been retired, and will be replaced by "Provisional Committee". 14-Jan-2014 Milton.io Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes Milton.io as a member of the consortium. 16-Dec-2013 TC PUSH established: CalConnect has established TC PUSH to develop a standardized method for PUSH notifications for CalDAV and CardDAV. 07-Oct-2013 Softly Software Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes Softly Software as a member of the consortium. 26-Sep-2013 Cyrus Daboo third recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award: CalConnect is proud to announce that Cyrus Daboo of Apple is the third recipient of the CalConnect Distinguished Service Award. 16-Aug-2013 Stylite Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes Stylite AG as a member of the consortium. 15-Aug-2013 fruux Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes fruux GmbH as a member of the consortium. 13-Aug-2013 Ribose Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes Ribose Inc as a member of the consortium. 28-Jun-2013 Atlas Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes Atlas as a member of the consortium. 21-May-2013 Software AG Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes SoftwareAG as a member of the consortium. 15-May-2013 SchedJoules Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes SchedJoules as a member of the consortium. 07-May-2013 BusyMac Joins CalConnect: CalConnect welcomes BusyMac as a member of the consortium. 15-Apr-2013 CalConnect Announces new Membership Categories and Interoperability Test Event Participation Fees: CalConnect has established new membership categories for vendors in the less than $5M annual revenue range, and for emergent vendors with less than $1M annual revenue. The Emergent Vendor category has a very low initial membership fee with a 3-year staged fee leading to a full commercial vendor membership, and pays a lower Interoperability Test Event registration fee. Only one member representative is permitted for an Emergent Vendor member. Interoperability Test Event fees have also been adjusted to the nearest $100 to rationalize them, addtional participant fees raised slightly, and non-member interoperability test event fees changed. See Membership Fees and Interoperability Test Event Fees for more information. See Previous Highlights