Bernard Desruisseaux of Oracle first recipient of CalConnect Distinguished Service Award

CalConnect is honored to announce that Bernard Desruisseaux of Oracle was the first recipient of the CalConnect Distinguished Service Award. The CalConnect Distinguished Service Award was created by the Board of Directors early in 2011 to recognize individuals who have given extraordinary and/or exemplary service to CalConnect and to interoperable calendaring more generally.  At CalConnect [...]

CalConnect will return to Europe this autumn: CalConnect XXV, October 1-5, 2012, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

We are very pleased to announce that Google will host CalConnext XXV this autumn at their offices in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 1-5, 2012. The schedule of coming events is: CalConnect XXIII January 30 – February 3, 2012 Apple, Cupertino, California CalConnect XXIV May 21-25, 2012 Patricia Egen Consulting, Chattanooga, Tennessee CalConnect XXV October 1-5, [...]

CalConnect will return to Europe in Autumn 2012

Based on the success of our first European CalConnect event (October in Prague), we have decided that our Autumn 2012 event will also be in Europe, and are actively seeking hosting proposals. The dates are probably October 1-5 (at the host’s convenience it might move a week or two earlier or later), and will be [...]

Vetting iCalendar files

In my blog post of December 27, 2010, In calendaring, success means the right thing, the right way!, I talked about downloading iCalendar .ics files from university sports web sites, and importing these events into different calendaring systems to ascertain whether the event data was interpreted the same way in each system. I discovered that [...]

CalConnect Statement on the Olson Timezone Database and related suit

CalConnect has always been interested in timezone data because accurate and timely timezone information is essential to calendaring and scheduling. We have done considerable work in the area and have always been impressed by the Olson volunteer team and Olson Database. The Timezone database, edited and managed by Arthur David Olson, provides a comprehensive source [...]

CalConnect Roundtable as of Thursday afternoon 6 October

The Roundtable technical conference is going well. We have 20 participants which for our very first full CalConnect event in Europe is pretty respectable, and this includes four non-member organizations (ARC Informatique, DHL, Intel open source lab, and Stylite AG. We moved the regular Technical Committee sessions to the afternoon to allow people in North [...]

Interoperability Testing Underway at CalConnect XXII

Today is the second day of the interoperability testing event at CalConnect XXII in Prague, hosted by Kerio Technologies. Fifteen people present from eight organizations and individual members, plus one testing remotely. Andrew McMillan – DAViCal server and aCal Android client Apple – Apple clients and servers Intel – SyncEvolution open source client Kerio Technologies [...]

Symposia and Workshops at CalConnect XXII in Prague

In addition to our regular Roundtable Technical Conference sessions, CalConnect is offering special Symposia/Workshops Thursday and Friday mornings October 6th and 7th. These sessions are covered by your Roundtable Conference registration fee and are open to all registered participants. The Symposia Chairs, presenters and discussion leaders will be principal authors of key calendaring and scheduling [...]

CalConnect Artifacts Repository and iCalendar in XML (RFC 6321) Schema

CalConnect has established a code artifacts repository as a place to publish code artifacts such as schema. The first schema set published is the iCalendar in XML Schema (xCal) developed with and in support of the OASIS WS-Calendar effort.

xCal – iCalendar in XML – published as RFC6321

Today the IETF published xCal, the iCalendar in XML specification, as RFC 6321 – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6321. CalConnect congratulates the authors of the specification, and our XML Technical Committee, for their hard work and perseverance.