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Welcome to CalConnect

Welcome to CalConnectSM, The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. The Consortium 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 understanding of and provide mechanisms to allow interoperable calendaring and scheduling methodologies, tools and applications to enter the mainstream of computing.

Recent Developments (as of January 11, 2010)
  • 11-Jan-10 Nokia Corporation Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Nokia Corporation as a member of the Consortium.

  • 04-Dec-09 CalConnect to hold Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event at CalConnect XVII: 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 event will be focused primarily on synchronization of mobile devices via ActiveSync and/or SyncML, based on the CalConnect Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Suite. Please see Mobile Calendaring IOP Test Event for further information and the testing schedule. Please see CalConnect XVII for logistics and registration information.

  • 04-Dec-09 Registration Opens for CalConnect XVII: Registration is now open for CalConnect XVII, February 1-5, 2010, at the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California. Please see CalConnect XVII for logistics and registration information.

  • 24-Nov-09 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event October 09 Public Report Published: The public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event on October 5-7 2009 has been published. This event was hosted by Apple in conjunction with Roundtable XVI. Please see October 2009 CalConnect Interoperability Test Report.

  • 23-Nov-09 OASIS Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes OASIS as a member of the Consortium, establishing a reciprocal membership partnership between OASIS and CalConnect.

  • 19-Oct-09 Report on Roundtable XVI: A brief report on Roundtable XVI, hosted by Apple in Cupertino, California, October 7-9, 2009, has been posted to the website.

  • 19-Oct-09 Public Calendaring & Scheduling Developer 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 list may be found at Calendaring Developers Discussion List.

  • 25-Sep-09 IETF has published RFC5545 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (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 RFC 2445 (iCalendar) which has been underway for some time. RFC5545 obsoletes RFC2445. See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5545.txt. Congratulations to everyone who was involved in progressing this work.

  • 30-Aug-09 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event Jun 09 Public Report Published: The public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event on June 1-3 2009 has been published. This event was hosted by Oracle in conjunction with Roundtable XV. Please see June 2009 CalConnect Interoperability Test Report.

  • 18-Aug-09 Intand Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Intand as a member of the Consortium.

  • 22-Jul-09 Registration Opens for CalConnect XVI: Registration is now open for CalConnect XVI, October 5-9, 2009, at Apple in Cupertino, California. Please see CalConnect XVI for logistics and registration information.

  • 21-Jul-09 Public Review and Comment on Glossary Update: The Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms was originally published in 2006 and is strongly in need of an update to reflect changes and advances in Calendaring and Scheduling since that time. The update process has been opened for public review and comment from all interested parties. Please see Public Review and Comment for the Glossary. All comments, corrections, and updates are encouraged.

  • 16-Jul-09 Election of Directors and Appointment of Officers: Ms. Kellie Hunter of PeopleCube has been elected to the CalConnect Board of Directors and appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer. The new Board makeup and officer appointments may be found at Board of Directors.

  • 11-Jun-09 Report on Roundtable XV: A brief report on Roundtable XV, hosted by Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, California, June 3-5, 2009, has been posted to the website.

  • 11-Jun-09 TC USECASE Resource Use Cases documents published: TC USECASE has published three documents related to Resources and resource use cases:

  • 09-Jun-09 iCalendar XML Representation Proposal published: 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 iCalendar XML Representation. This Proposal defines an XML format that allows iCalendar data to be converted to XML, and then back to iCalendar, without losing any semantic meaning in the data. CalConnect Proposals are experimental specifications which may be submitted to the IETF or other standards bodies for progression to become standards.

  • 05-Jun-09 Venues for next two meetings determined: CalConnect is delighted to announce that its next two meeting venues have been established. CalConnect XVI, October 5-9, 2009, will be hosted by Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California. CalConnect XVII, February 1-5, 2010, will be hosted by The University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California.

  • 24-Apr-09 Notify Technology Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Notify Technology as a member of the Consortium.

  • 15-Apr-09 Freebusy Read URL Proposal published:: TC FREEBUSY has published its Proposal for Freebusy Read URL. Please see Freebusy Read URL. CalConnect Proposals are experimental specifications intended for research, and exploration; successful proposals are candidates to be submitted to the IETF or other standards bodies for progression to become standards.

  • 14-Apr-09 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event Feb 09 Public Report Published:: The public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event on February 2-4 2009 has been published. This event was hosted by Microsoft in conjunection with Roundtable XIV. Please see CalConnect Interoperability Test Report February 2009.

  • 07-Apr-09 ZideOne Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes ZideOne GmbH as a member of the Consortium.

  • 02-Apr-09 CalConnect Minutes from Roundtable XIV is now available: The CalConnect Minutes newsletter from Roundtable XIV has been published and is available at CalConnect Minutes April 2009. You can find subscription information and links to previous newsletters at Minutes.

  • 31-Mar-09 NASA Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as a member of the Consortium.

  • 20-Mar-09 Registration is open for CalConnect XV: Registration is now open for Roundtable XV and the associated CalConnect Interoperability Test Event, June 1-5, 2009 in Redwood Shores, California, hosted by Oracle. Please see CalConnect XV for logistics and links to the registration pages for the Roundtable and for the IOP test event.

  • 20-Mar-09 New CalConnect Blog: CalConnect has set up a blog at http://calconnect.wordpress.com. This will primarily be used for announcements of events and publications much as our home page is today, plus occasional other posts about occurrences in the Calendaring community. This blog features an RSS feed to make it easy for interested parties to receive push notification of CalConnect announcements etc.

  • 20-Feb-09 Report on Roundtable XIV: A brief report on Roundtable XIV, hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, February 4-6, 2009, has been posted to the website. The presentation on iCal4j from our Guest Speaker, Ben Fortuna, is separately available at iCal4j and CalConnect.





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