Announcements

The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published a new CalConnect proposal, Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar. The proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft. 

Even if your organization is not currently a member of CalConnect, our upcoming event, CalConnect XX, in February is a perfect opportunity to learn more about CalConnect, and our activities, first hand. As the Bay Area is local to many of you, attending these events, hosted this time at UC Berkeley, would be very convenient.

Registration is now open for CalConnect XX, February 7-11, 2011, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley California. Please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect20.shtml for logistics and registration information for the Roundtable and for the Interoperability Test Events.

Oracle recently announced the release of Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite 7 Update 1 at Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite (formerly Sun Java System Communications Suite) is a carrier-grade, highly scalable, secure, and reliable messaging and collaboration platform. It enables service providers to quickly bring to market a full-featured communication platform—one that takes advantage of existing and emerging standards, includes innovations in message management, and better enables cost-effective communication.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes TimeTrade Systems as a member of the consortium.  

A brief report on Roundtable XIX has been posted to the CalConnect website.  

CalConnect has published An Introduction to Internet Calendering. This Introduction provides an overview of the major calendaring & scheduling standards and data exchange protocols. It is available in both HTML and PDF formats.  

CalConnect XIX is underway at IBM/Lotus in Littleton, MA. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday morning are the interoperability test event; Wednesday-Friday will be Roundtable XIX. Our thanks to IBM/Lotus for hosting this event.

Newspapers looking to enhance communications with their customers and draw more readers to their advertisers are using a new Internet-based calendar communications network as a solution to event publishing and information sharing. dotCal.com (dotCal) is working with many community newspapers to enhance marketing and communication strategies for local meetings, restaurant openings, special events, and other time-sensitive information.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Tungle Corp. as a member of the Consortium.