Invitation to participate in the next Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event

RECENT UPDATE as of 7 September 2010: Based on the responses we received, the Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test Event will not be held in October, but at the following CalConnect event, which will be February 7-11 2011 at the University of California at Berkeley. Thanks to all who responded.
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At the last CalConnect event in May, we held our third Mobile Calendaring Interoperability Test event, focused on ActiveSync technologies. The event was a great success. Participating organizations were Icewarp, Mailsite, Microsoft, Nokia, Notify Technology, and Synchronica. Between these six participants, four servers and four clients were tested. Interest was expressed at the event in having another mobile calendaring IOP test event soon, perhaps as soon as the next CalConnect in October at IBM/Lotus in Littleton, MA.

If we are going to have a Mobile test event in October we will need to start the planning very soon, so TC MOBILE has requested that I contact the CalConnect membership and other possibly interested parties** with the goal of determining the interest in participating in such an event in October. Note that at this point we are trying to determine *possible interest* and are NOT seeking commitments.

**CalConnect Interoperability Test Events are open to non-members and members alike

If you are possibly interested please copy the section below, paste it into an e-mail, mark the appropriate items and send it to contact AT calconnect.org (no spaces).

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___ We are interested in possibly participating in a mobile calendaring interoperability test event in October
___ October is too soon but we would be interested in participating in an event in February of 2011

___ We are interested in (check all that apply)
___ SyncML testing
___ ActiveSync testing
___ CalDAV mobile client with CalDAV server testing
___ General iCalendar, iTIP and iMIP client testing
___ vCard and/or CardDAV client testing
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Please reply NO LATER than Tuesday 3 August as we must make the decision on the TC MOBILE call on August 4 as to whether to go ahead with an October event!

CalConnect Minutes from Roundtable XVIII

CalConnect Minutes is the CalConnect newsletter published after each CalConnect Roundtable. Each edition contains information from the previous Roundtable and IOP Test Event plus articles and guest contributions. It is intended for CalConnect members and for others interested in CalConnect and in calendaring and scheduling.

The current edition of CalConnect Minutes is available at CalConnect Minutes Roundtable XVIII.

May 2010 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event Report Published

The public report from the CalConnect Interoperability Test Event on May 24-26 2010 has been published. This test event included both a “regular” test event and a Mobile Calendaring test event focused on ActiveSync. The test event was hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with Roundtable XVIII. Please see May 2010 CalConnect Interoperability Test Event Report.

The complete internal test event report is available to CalConnect members on the CalConnect website members area.

LINK Property Proposal and Timezone Service and XML Specification Proposals Published

The EVENTPUB Technical Committee has published LINK Property Extension to iCalendar, and the proposal has been submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft. Please see LINK Property Extension to iCalendar. This proposal introduces a new iCalendar property LINK to provide ancillary information for iCalendar components.

The TIMEZONE Technical Committee has published Timezone Service Protocol and Timezone XML Specification, and the proposals have been submitted to the IETF as Internet Drafts. Please see Timezone Service Protocol and Timezone XML Specification. The Timezone Service Protocol defines a timezone service protocol that allows reliable, secure and fast delivery of timezone information to client systems such as calendaring and scheduling applications or operating systems. The Timezone XML Specification describes a format for describing timezone information for software and services.

CalConnect Proposals are experimental specifications which may be submitted to the IETF or other standards bodies for progression to become standards.

Apple announces CalDAV support in new MobileMe Calendar

Apple has inaugurated a beta program for their new MobileMe Calendar, which uses the CalDAV protocol. A browser-based web client is offered, in addition to support in iCal and on the iPhone and iPad. Apple also says that support for Microsoft Outlook is coming soon.