July 24, 2006
Federated Freebusy Demo

Members of the Consortium succssfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept application which aggregated and displayed Free/Busy information for multiple individuals across seven different calendaring systems. The demo was conducted at The Open Group’s meeting in Miami on Monday, July 17th in response to The Open Group’s Federated Freebusy Challenge.

The aggregation technnology is based on the Bedework CalDAV implementation, and the intent of the Consortium is to make the freebusy aggregator, the connectors to non-CalDAV-based calendaring systems, and the web interface publicly available as open source.

The joint press release from CalConnect and The Open Group is at Federated Freebusy Demo Press Release.

The presentation discussing the Freebusy challenge and how it was met is at Federated Freebusy Demo Presentation.