The World of Calendaring

I'm honored to announce that as of yesterday, September 26th 2016, Thomas Schäfer of 1&1 is the new Chair of TC CHAIRS. The Chair of TC Chairs has a central role in coordinating and progressing our work. Thomas takes over this role from Cyrus Daboo. On behalf of all members, my gratitude goes out to Cyrus who has served as chair for all but two years since 2006. In 2013 Cyrus received the CalConnect Distinguished Service Award, also for his work as chair.

The  CalConnect Board of Directors announces they have appointed Rutger Geelen, principal of SchedJoules in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,  President of CalConnect, effect July 15th, 2016.

CalConnect has recently published its new Calendaring Developer’s Guide as a read-only wiki at http://devguide.calconnect.org.  

We have created an initial outline of topics that we expect will be of value, and added content for a subset of them such as creating a simple event, together with examples.  At this point we feel the Guide has enough content to be published and useful, but it is still incomplete.

In less than 2 weeks,  CalConnect XXXVI in Hong Kong, our very first conference in Asia, will begin with our Developer's Conference, followed by a seminar at Hong Kong University, and then our Member's Conference, which opens with a Public Day at ITFest 2016.

The IETF has announced that two CalConnect specifications submitted to the IETF have been approved and published as RFCs (proposed standards).

Only four weeks left until CalConnect XXXVI  in Hong Kong, April 18-22, 2016, hosted by Ribose and OGCIO  

If you are planning to come to Hong Kong it’s time to register!  And to book your flights and hotel.  

The IETF CALEXT Working Group has issued a Last Call for Comments on two CalConnect specifications:  Calendar Availability (VAVAILABILITY) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-calext-availability/
 and Calendar Extensions https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-calext-extensions/.

Registration is now open for CalConnect's first event in Asia:  CalConnect XXXVI, April 18-22 2016, in Hong Kong, hosted by Ribose and OGCIO (the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer).