Media Alert: Duke U. to Host Calendaring and Scheduling Interop

Item: June 1-2, 2005 Interop hosted by Duke University in Durham, NC

Sponsor: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (www.calconnect.org) The Consortium, launched December 2004, focuses on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and technologies. Calconnect promotes general understanding of and provide mechanisms to allow interoperable calendaring and scheduling methodologies, tools and applications to enter the mainstream of computing. Membership listed below.

Participants:
Isamet, developers of Mulberry (formerly Cyrusoft International, Inc. and Information Security Engineering Lab, Inc.)
The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), leading provider of Net business solutions Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the nation’s oldest technological university

Program:

  • Testing against current draft of the CalDAV specification of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). CalDAV is a proposal for a standard protocol to enable calendar access via WebDAV

Background: This is Calconnect’s third Interop.

Interop test events are open to members and non-members. They involve developers of Calendaring and Scheduling products or implementations that are based upon Calendaring and Scheduling standards and open specifications, in particular the IETF iCal, iMIP and iTIP RFCs and related drafts. At the events, implementers test their implementations for accuracy in implementing the Calendaring and Scheduling
Standards, and test interoperability with other implementations. Goals of the Interops include assessing the C&S standards, assessing the implementations, and determining interoperability.

Interop Information:

Members: California State University (Fresno), Carnegie Mellon University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, EVDB, Isamet, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Meeting Maker, M.I.T., The Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Open Source Application Foundation, Oracle Corporation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford University, Symbian, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin Madison, and Yahoo! Inc.

Media Contact: Maryann Karinch, , 970-577-8500