CalConnect welcomes Softly Software
Posted October 7, 2013CalConnect welcomes Softly Software as a member of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
Softly Software, based in Bedford, United Kingdom, offers online scheduling tools.
News & Highlights
Exploring New Work Areas for CalConnect
Posted October 2, 2013At last week’s CalConnect Roundtable XXVIII in Prague, we established Ad Hoc Committees to explore three new potential areas of work, APIs Federated Shared Calendars, and CalDAV “Push”. Additionally we decided to continue the work of the existing “Itinerary” Ad Hoc.
The Ad Hoc Committees will make recommendations at the next CalConnect event in February whether these Ad Hocs should be chartered as Technical Committees, continue as Ad Hoc Committees, or be disbanded.
In greater detail, the three new areas of work are:
API Ad Hoc
Interoperability Testing at CalConnect XXVIII
Posted September 27, 2013The Interoperability Test Event at CalConnect XXVIII featured 5 clients and 8 CalDAV servers tested by 13 on-site participants and two remote. In addition to the “regular” CalDAV and iMIP client/server and server/server testing, significant achievements include
Cyrus Daboo of Apple Third Recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award
Posted September 26, 2013CalConnect is honored to announce that Cyrus Daboo of Apple is the third recipient of the CalConnect Service Award. The award was presented at CalConnect XXVIII on September 25, 2013.
Cyrus earned his Doctorate in Physics from Cambridge University in the U.K.. and moved to the United States after working as a Research Associate at Cambridge in the mid-1990s. In the U.S. he founded his own firm and developed Mulberry, a calendaring and e-mail client adopted largely in the academic sector, which he eventually made an open source project.