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EDUCAUSE 2005 Overview of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
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© 2005 The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, Inc.

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Foreword

This document incorporates by reference the CalConnect Intellectual Property Rights, Appropriate Usage, Trademarks and Disclaimer of Warranty for External (Public) Documents as located at

http://www.calconnect.org/documents/disclaimerpublic.pdf.

EDUCAUSE 2005 Overview of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

1.  Goals of the Consortium

  1. Promote Calendaring Scheduling via a partnership between Vendors and Customers

  2. Help drive the evolution of open standards for Calendaring Scheduling (iCalendar, iMIP, iTIP, CalDAV)

  3. Conduct interoperability testing

  4. Develop a shared vision for the Calendaring Scheduling community

2.  Academic Members

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • California State University Fresno

  • Dartmouth College

  • Duke University

  • Harvard ASCS

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Cal Tech)

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Stanford University

  • University of California Berkeley

  • University of Washington

  • University of Wisconsin

3.  Vendors and Open Source Implementers

  • EVDB

  • IBM

  • Meeting Maker

  • Mozilla Foundation

  • Novell

  • Open Source Applications Foundation

  • Oracle

  • Symbian

  • Trumba

  • Yahoo!

If your vendor isn’t listed here, ask them why!

4.  Technical Committees

4.1.  AUTHENTICATE

Better HTTP authentication in CalDAV.

4.2.  CalDAV

Calendar access use cases and problems.

4.3.  EVENTPUB

Event publishing.

4.4.  IOPTEST

Interoperability testing reporting. Test suites.

4.5.  MOBILE

Issues for mobile devices.

4.6.  REALTIME

Calendaring across organizational boundaries.

4.7.  RECURR

Handling of recurrences.

4.8.  TIMEZONE

Issues with timezone support. Define timezone registry.

4.9.  USECASE

Real world use cases to be solved.

5.  Events

  1. Interops (Interoperability Testing)

    • Participation open to members and non-members (significant discount for members)

    • Two day event usually co-located with Roundtable

    • Results published to relevant standards org

    • Public version on Consortium website

  2. Roundtables

    • Three per year midway between IETF meetings

    • Held in conjunction with Interops

    • Technical committee working meetings

    • Review and status of technical committees

    • “All hands” plenary meeting of membership

    • Consensus on direction, next steps of Consortium

6.  How to Get Involved

  1. Website: http://www.calconnect.org

  2. Contact us: info@calconnect.org

  3. Attend the next Roundtable as an observer: January 10-12, Provo, Utah

  4. Flyers with more information and business cards available at the front

  5. This presentation: http://www.calconnect.org/presentations/educause2005.ppt