CalConnect announces special registration fees for CalConnect XXII in Prague

CalConnect has announced special reduced registration fees for some participants in the upcoming CalConnect XXII event, hosted by Kerio Technologies in Prague, Czech Republic on October 3-7, 2011. The special rates are: Non-members may register one person for the Interoperability Test Event, the Roundtable members meeting (as an observer), or both, for a single fee [...]

Registration open for CalConnect XXII in Prague

The next CalConnect event will be held the week of October 3-7, 2011, in Prague, Czech Republic, hosted by Kerio Technologies. This will be the first full CalConnect week held outside North America. To allow for additional time for planning and arranging for international flights, we have opened registration for this meeting early. Please see [...]

Schedule optimization and finding habitable planets: The Kepler Mission

At Roundtable XXI last week at NASA Ames, Charlie Sobek, the Kepler Mission Deputy Project Manager, gave us a presentation on the Kepler Mission to find habitable planets. The presentation highlighted the scheduling and mission optimization issues facing the project, including issues such as scheduling time between multiple projects on the Deep Space Network and [...]

CalConnect XXI: Timezones by Reference

This post could also be titled “Doing Something about Timezones”. The biggest problem (from CalConnect’s perspective) with the change in 2007 to Extended Daylight Savings Time was the widespread problems with updating (or failing to update) several hundred million desktop systems, servers, and so forth with the new start/stop dates for DST in the U.S.. [...]