Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium’s Fifth Interop and Roundtable

PDF: Roundtable V Media Alert.

News: CalConnect is now accepting registrations for its fifth Interop (see below) and Roundtable. Status of Technical Committees and their action plans will be the focal point of the Roundtable, open to members and observers.

This event reflects the Consortium’s ability to stay on target to produce interoperable calendaring and scheduling solutions within five years of inception.

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Host and Location: Description:		 Interop: January 9-10, 2006
Roundtable: January 10-12, 2006
Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (https://www.calconnect.org) Novell, Inc., 1860 South Novell Place, Building H, Executive Briefing Center, Provo, Utah

The Interop, open to members and non-members, will comprise multiple scenarios including CalDAV server and client testing, Min-IOP testing, and iCAL, iTIP, iMIP interoperability testing. 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.

The Roundtable will be comprised of Technical Committee meetings, to which all members and observers are welcome, plus some additional sessions and committee meetings. Thursday morning will be the full Plenary meeting of the Consortium, open to all participants. This session will include report-outs from all Technical Committees, demonstrations resulting from the Interop testing earlier in the week, and establishment of future goals and directions for the Consortium.

Selected Technical Committees of CalConnect and summaries of their focus are as follows:

TC-MOBILE

Develop recommendations for open standards-based Calendaring on mobile devices

TC-REALTIME

Address realtime Server-Server Interoperability

Interop and Roundtable Information: https://www.calconnect.org

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

Media Contact: Maryann Karinch, maryann@karinch.com, 970-577-8500