Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium Welcomes Creators of dotCal Global Calendaring Hub and Social Network Environment

McKinleyville, CA – December 11, 2008

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has announced that neutralSpace, Inc has become one of the 14 companies, and 2 open-source organizations that make up the consortium.

Membership of neutralSpace reflects the recent growth of the organization through the addition of young, innovative companies. neutralSpace, was founded in early 2007 “to explore and leverage upcoming disruptive changes in calendaring and internet infrastructure.”

“CalConnect’s members take an energetic and focused approach to creating solutions in calendaring and scheduling through their collaborative efforts in our interoperability testing events and technical committees,” said the Consortium’s Executive Director Dave Thewlis.

“CalConnect is finding strong interest in the issues and problems related to calendaring and scheduling among both US-based and 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.”

Danton (Dan) Mendell, President and CEO of neutralSpace , stated, “Our innovative and open-source solutions to these difficult cake collaboration within the CalConnect standards a natural step. Our mission for dotCal is to do for calendar sharing what email did for messaging—and we believe the best way to ensure that happens is through an open-source approach and a partnership with CalConnect.”

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (www.calconnect.org)

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, Cabo Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, Kerio Technologies, MailSafe, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, neutralSpace, New York University, Oracle, Patricia Egen Consulting, PeopleCube, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, SWAMI (Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure), Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo!/Zimbra.