These Public Presentations include both CalConnect presentations and presentations made at CalConnect events by other parties. Some but not all of these presentations may be formal CalConnect documents; those which are will have CalConnect Document (CD) numbers.

  • An Anecdotal History of CalConnect (January 28, 2015):
    Dave Thewlis Executive Director of CalConnect, gave this presentation as part of the CalConnect Tenth Anniversary Celebration at CalConnect XXXII.

  • Kepler Mission Operations Scheduling (May 25 2011):
    Charlie Sobeck, Kepler Deputy Project Manager, NASA Ames, gave this presentation to CalConnect Roundtable XXI, discussing the Kepler Mission with a focus on the scheduling and resource optimization issues involved in the mission.

  • Calendaring in a Public University (February 9 2011):
    Shel Waggener, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer of the University of California, Berkeley, gave this presentation to CalConnect Roundtable XX, discussing the issues that face a public institution and the need for calendaring to become inclusive instead of exclusive.

  • Ben Fortuna’s iCal4j Presentation at Roundtable XIV February 2009 (February 4 2009):
    Ben Fortuna was CalConnect’s first Guest Speaker. He spoke on ical4j: its history, the reasons for embarking on it, issues encountered, and what he sees for the future of ical4j.

  • Presentations from Meet CalConnect Event in Europe November 2008 (November 7 and 10, 2008):
    This zip file contains the following presentations from the Meet CalConnect Invitational Event held in Prague on November 7th 2008 and in London on November 10th 2008:

    • Meet CalConnect - Overview of the sessions to follow

    • Introduction to CalConnect - Introduction to what we are, where we came from, what we do, etc.

    • Interoperability Testing and Standards Development - How we do Interoperability testing and why

    • Meet CalConnect - iSchedule - iSCHEDULE Technical Committee in more detail

    • Meet CalConnect - TC Mobile - MOBILE Technical Committee in more detail

    • CalConnect and Open Source - RPI, Bedework, Open Source, and member perspective on CalConnect

    • Meet CalConnect - Stockholm University - A member perspective on CalConnect

  • Public CalConnect Technical Preview from Roundtable XIII (October 8, 2008):
    A presentation from CalConnect Roundtable XIII on the Technical Preview of seperate previews of CalDAV Scheduling, iSchedule, and Freebusy URL, involving multiple calendaring servers and clients.

  • Public CalConnect Technical Preview from Roundtable XI (February 6, 2008):
    A presentation from CalConnect Roundtable XI on the Technical Preview of seperate previews of CalDAV Scheduling, Server-Server Scheduling, and Freebusy URL, involving multiple calendaring servers and clients.

  • The Danish Government eKalender.dk Project (February 6, 2008):
    A presentation from CalConnect Roundtable XI by representatives from the Danish IT & Telecoms Agenday and the Danish Ministry of the Environment on the Danish Government’s ambitious eKalendar.dk project to provide calendaring services to the public sector in Denmark. This presentation is ©2008 by the Danish IT & Telecoms Agency and the Kingdom of Denmark.

  • Ekalendar.dk from the Developer’s Perspective (February 6, 2008):
    A presentation from CalConnect Roundtable XI by Cabo Communications, the primary contractor to the Danish Government on the eKalendar.dk Project. This presentation is ©2008 by Cabo Communications.

  • Calconnect, Calendaring Interoperability and Calendaring Standards (November 11, 2007):
    A recent presentation on CalConnect, Calendaring Standards, and CalConnect activities. A briefing for a potential member of the Consortium.

  • Federated Freebusy Demo Presentation (July 24, 2006):
    In response to The Open Group’s Federated Freebusy Challenge, a team at the Consortium applied aggregation technology based on the Bedework CalDAV implementation with an intent to make the freebusy aggregator, the connectors to non-CalDAV-based calendaring systems, and the web interface publicly available as open source. The corresponding press release is at Federated Freebusy Demo Press Release.

  • OMA/DS Liaison Briefing (April 5, 2006):
    The briefing given to the Open Mobile Alliance/Data Synchronization working group as part of the establishment of a liaison between the two organizations.

  • CalConnect Overview (October 2005):
    The original overview presentation for The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium developed at its inception and revised after Roundtable III.

  • Educause 2005 Presentation (October 2005):
    A short overview of the Consortium presented at Educause 2005.