2018-09-26 Adjusted Thursday schedule to accommodate work sessions in afternoon.
2018-09-24 Thursday schedule re-arranged, feedback sessions added.
2018-09-23 Wednesday schedule slightly re-arranged, added "Authoring CalConnect Standards" Lab to Wednesday afternoon. Monday and Tuesday schedules changed slightly.
2018-09-20 Minor schedule/session changes, addition of session on JMAP for Calendar and Contacts.
2018-09-11 Minor schedule/session changes and additions, event calendar updated.
2018-09-07 Conference registration fee adjusted.
2018-09-03 CalConnect rate at conference hotel available through 19 September or when the room block is exhausted.
2018-08-14 Minor schedule/session changes, event calendar updated.
2018-07-26 Subscribable (webdav) calendar for the event added.
2018-07-24 Minor schedule/session changes; additional information for train bookings in transportation.
2018--07-18 Preliminary Conference schedule and sessions added
2018-07-06 Added information and link about Public Workshop Monday afternoon the 24th.
CalConnect XLIII will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on September 24-27, 2018, hosted by 1&1.
This event is the first preview of our new conference format. CalConnect XLIII will be four days (Monday through Thursday), and brings together, as a single event and with a single fee, our traditional conference (Conference Track), with elements of the former developers' forum (Technical Track). The two tracks are simply a handy guide to the session content, and all attendees are encouraged to attend sessions in both tracks. We will use your feedback and experience at Karlsruhe to help us fine-tune our new conference for events in 2019 and beyond.
CalConnect XLIII is open to members, and to non-members as observers.
General Format: Monday morning will be the opening of the technical track and an introduction for first-time attendees and observers. Monday afternoon will be the opening of the conference track, including status of CalConnect activities, and other CalConnect business, and a Public Workshop to introduce Calendaring & Scheduling to developers, which will be advertised in the Karlsruhe IT community. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings will be conference track, afternoons will be technical track. The general content of the tracks is below; the Schedule section will include sessions for both the conference and technical tracks.
Conference track:
- Strategic topics and discussions.
- Decisions on CalConnect business
- Small BOF sessions to gauge interest
- Small sessions to report on progress in technical tracks
Technical track:
- In depth discussions - possibly smaller groups as follow up from topics started at the conference
- in depth BOF sessions
- Face-to-face versions of TC calls
- Development of data formats, protocols, standards (incl. Whiteboard work).
- Joint work on CalConnect efforts such as the CalDAV Tester, iCal4J, DEVGUIDE, perhaps a reference specification for CalDAV or JSCalendar or...
- Test Lab: testing of new components, testing and resolution of bugs and issues, test requests from TCs to confirm application behavior.
Public Workshop: Monday 24 September, 1600-1730 - Introduction into Calendaring, Scheduling, address book and Date&Time, followed by a reception at 1800. See https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/TEC-Campus/events/252358527/ for more information.
In general most CalConnect participants will not require a Visa to visit Germany. However if you are unsure, please see German VISA Information.
We will begin each day at 0830 (rather than 0800 as in the past) with coffee. The first session will be at 0900 (rather than 0830). The default end for each day is now 1730 rather than 1800.
Morning coffee (or tea) will be accompanied by fruit; however, you should plan to have your real breakfast prior to arriving at the venue.
Registration is now open for CalConnect XLIII; please see https://www.calconnect.org/events/event-registration-payment to register. There is only one registration and one payment per person for the entire event.
CalConnect XLIII will be held at the 1&1 facilities in Karlsruhe, at Ernst-Frey-Straße 10, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany. The venue is less than a kilometer walk from the conference hotel, Hotel Santo, Karlstraße 67-69, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany. Please note that the home page for the hotel is not available in English; English information may be found at booking.com: https://www.booking.com/hotel/de/santo-karlsruhe.en-gb.html.
Here is a map showing the locations of the venue, the hotel, and the main train station: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15uK6_ZfBrA3TO_WcAUVyxLjrUiw&usp=sharing.
For more information about Karlsruhe please see https://www.karlsruhe-tourismus.de/en/.
If you will be arriving and departing by air, plan on arriving at Frankfurt International Airport (FRA) and take the train from Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof to Karlsruhe. The train station is physically within the Frankfurt airport. The train operates on an hourly basis (direct or via Mannheim), and will cost about 80€ to Karlsruhe and back (flexible rate, less if you fix the time in advance), Please see https://www.bahn.com/en/view/index.shtml for booking information in English.
The central train station at Karlsruhe is close to the conference hotel and the venue: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15uK6_ZfBrA3TO_WcAUVyxLjrUiw&usp=sharing.
Within Karlsruhe, either walk or use the tram: day ticket 6,40 € (10,60 € for a group up to 5); single ride 2 €.
Please Note: Credit cards are not necessarily accepted universally in Germany, in particular by taxis. ATMs (cash tills) should be available at all airports, train stations, etc. and you should provide yourself with some cash if you haven't already.
The conference hotel is the Hotel Santo, Karlstraße 67-69, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany. Please note that the home page for the hotel is not available in English; English information may be found at booking.com: https://www.booking.com/hotel/de/santo-karlsruhe.en-gb.html.
1&1 have reserved a block of 15 rooms for us at a rate of 80€ incl. WLAN and breakfast (without our rate it is 130-150€) per night, between September 23 and September 28. The rate will be available until a few days before the event (essentially 19 September) or if all 15 rooms are booked earlier.
To obtain the rate you need to write an email to Julia Becker (jbecker@united-internet.de) including the dates (from-to), your Name and your email address. Julia will inform the hotel of requests, and the hotel will send a confirmation email directly to the attendee. Please allow up to a week to receive the confirmation.
The rate will be paid by each attendee as our service is just to provide the lower rate.
CALCONNECT XLIII
| Monday Morning 24 September - TECHNICAL TRACK | |
| 0830-0900 | Coffee, Fruit |
| 0900-0930 | Technical Track Opening Sign up for Test Lab, additional discussion topics, etc. |
| 0930-1030 | In-depth discussion: Server-Side Subscriptions |
| 1030-1100 | Break and Refreshments |
| 1100-1200 | Introduction to CalConnect Q&A An optional session for first-time attendees. The genesis of CalConnect, a brief history, how CalConnect works, followed by questions. |
| 1100-1215 | CalConnect CalDAV Tester status and joint work Making tests more generally applicable |
| 1215-1230 | Technical Track wrapup and status for day |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| Monday Afternoon 24 September - CONFERENCE TRACK | |
| 1330-1400 | Conference Track Opening Welcome, logistics, introductions |
| 1400-1430 | Reports on CalConnect Activities TC activity, IETF liaison, Report from the Board |
| 1430-1500 | New and Non-Member Presentations Short introductions to new/non members attending |
| 1500-1530 | Review of Technical Track discussions of special note |
| 1530-1600 | Break and refreshments |
| 1600-1730 | Public Workshop: Introduction to Calendaring & Scheduling https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/TEC-Campus/events/252358527/ |
| 1730-1930 | Welcome Reception On premises |
| Tuesday Morning 25 September - CONFERENCE TRACK | |
| 0830-0900 | Coffee, Fruit |
| 0900-0945 | Developers Guide Presenting current status, new hosting option, request for content |
| 0945-1030 | "Party Crashing" proposed specification What to do about uninvited attendees |
| 1030-1100 | Break and Refreshments |
| 1100-1200 | Review current work and status Series in Calendar Data, Server-Side Subscriptions, Streaming Calendar Data, Subscription upgrade. TZDIST, TZ Geolocation specs |
| 1200-1230 | BOF: EU Time Zone direction and CalConnect actions (position paper, workshop at next event?) |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| Tuesday Afternoon 25 September - TECHNICAL TRACK | |
| 1330-1430 | In-depth discussion: Streaming Calendar Data |
| 1430-1530 | RRULE expansion in existing implementations Review and generate test cases following the discussion on the tc calendar mailing list and planned CalConnect position paper |
| 1530-1600 | Break and refreshments |
| 1600-1715 | In-depth discussion: Abuse audit draft How to store information on how an event ends up on someone’s calendar including exchange of audit information between server and client |
| 1715-1730 | Technical Track wrapup and status for day |
| Wednesday Morning 26 September - CONFERENCE TRACK | |
| 0830-0900 | Coffee, Fruit |
| 0900-1000 | CalConnect Standards, Publishing and Co-Publishing As result of our liaisons with other bodies, we will start publishing work done together with these bodies again, to show our contribution and raise the awareness of CalConnect being a standards body. Exchange about what’s needed to do so (projects, new processes, voting). |
| 1000-1030 | CalConnect Liaisons with other standards bodies With which bodies, why, what are we doing, value provided, how to get involved |
| 1030-1100 | Break and Refreshments |
| 1100-1130 | Introduction to CalConnect/ISO 8601-2 |
| 1130-1230 | Calendar Spam Presenting status of Best Practices Document and process with M3AAWG as well as feedback from technical track session on abuse audit draft |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| Wednesday Afternoon 26 September - TECHNICAL TRACK | |
| 1330-1430 | Authoring CalConnect Standards Lab Using Asciidoc and GitHub Repositories to author and publish CalConnect Standards |
| 1430-1530 | TC VCARD, ISO TC 211, ISO 19160 Universal address profiles and evolution of vCard |
| 1530-1600 | Break and refreshments |
| 1600-1630 | JSCalendar status, technical issues Review specification moving forward to last call for draft, extensions for address data and tasks |
| 1630-1715 | JMAP for Calendar and Contacts Review JMAP Core status and work on a data model for synchronizing calendar and contacts data with a server using JMAP. |
| 1715-1730 | Technical Track wrapup and status for day |
| 1915-2130 | Conference Dinner Lehners |
| Thursday Morning 27 September - COMBINED | |
| 0830-0900 | Coffee, Fruit |
| 0900-0930 | Feedback on Standards Activities and New Confence Format |
| 0930-1000 | ISO TC 37 update Potential for TC on Languages/I18N/L10N |
| 1000-1030 | Handling ETags in CalDAV The use of ETags in CalDAV appears to conflict with the specifications. We will try to develop a recommended approach. |
| 1030-1100 | Break and Refreshments |
| 1100-1130 | CalDAV handling of public or shared calendars Supporting searching for, subscriptions and invitations to public calendars |
| 1130-1145 | Technical Committee Directions for period to CalConnect XLIV |
| 1145-1230 | CalConnect Plenary Meeting Administrative business, coming events, consensus agreements on decisions reached during the week, open floor. |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| Thursday Afternoon 27 September - Working Sessions | |
| 1330-1500 | DevGuide Joint Work Work on increasing the content of DEVGUIDE following the short list of demanded/suggested content |
| 1330-1700 | CalDAV Tester Joint Work |
| 1530-1600 | Break and refreshments |
| 1700 | Close of CalConnect XLIII |
Please see the Reading List for the Conference at https://www.calconnect.org/event-reading-list