Membership Marks CalConnect’s Growth in the International Arena

DOC: Stockholm University Joins CalConnect

McKinleyville, CA – December 18, 2007

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (www.CalConnect.org) has announced that Stockholm University has become one of the 16 universities, 22 companies, and 2 open-source organizations that make up the four-year-old consortium. Membership of Stockholm University, one of the largest in Sweden, follows a series of meetings between a CalConnect delegation and organizations in four European nations.

“As companies and organizations become international in scope and spread across more and more time zones, the work of CalConnect’s members assume greater and greater economic significance,” said the Consortium’s Executive Director Dave Thewlis. “CalConnect is finding strong interest in the issues and problems related to calendaring and scheduling among European organizations. The commonality among all of our members is their support of and increasing reliance on published protocols and implementation of open standards in calendaring and scheduling solutions. Our focus is on interoperability, and open standards are the key.”

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organizational members are Apple, Boeing, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, Kerio Technologies, MailSite, Marware, Microsoft, Mirapoint, MIT, Mozilla Foundation, New York University, Open Connector Groupware, Open Source Applications Foundation, Oracle, PeopleCube, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, Trumba, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra.