Foreword
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Introduction
Roundtable XXI took place on May 25-27, 2011, hosted by NASA Ames at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. The event was attended by 26 people from 16 organizations. The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event was held immediately prior to the Roundtable on May 23- 25. Ten people from three organizations were present onsite. plus two more remotely A Workshohp on Tasks was held Wednesday afternoon as part of the Roundtable; in addition to the Roundtable participants, several others were present just for the workshop or attended remotely.
The Roundtable was dedicated to technical committee sessions, and informal discussions and networking, with an all-hands Plenary meeting as the last item on Friday afternoon. The Technical Committee sessions were as usual organized sequentially, without competing parallel sessions, as is our standard practice to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of each Technical Committee the opportunity to do so.
Report on Roundtable XXI, May 25-27, 2011
1. Special Events
A Workshop on Tasks (VTODOs) was held Wednesday afternoon with the goal of determining what needs to be added to iCalendar and related specifications to improve and encourage the use of the standards for task and project management, as well as personal information management.
The host presentation was given by Charlie xxxx, Assistant Project Manager of the Kepler Mission, focused on the secheduling and resource optimization issues (especially concerning the Deep Space Network) encountered with the mission. See Kepler Mission Operations Schedulilng.
Friday afternoon we were offered a tour of two simulation facilities, the Future Flight Center and the Crew-Vehicle systems Research Facility.
2. Documents Published or Updated since Last Roundtable
2.1. Published Documents
Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms Version 2.0
Index to Calendaring and Scheduling Standards Version 2.0
CalConnect has replaced the internal Interoperability Test Event Report with an internal wiki.
CalConnect has replaced the public Interoperability Test Report with a section on the Test Event in the CalConnect Minutes newsletter publised after each event.
3. Update on Technical Committee Work and Initiatives
Roundtable session summaries and activities may be found at http://calconnect.org/minutes/CalConnect%20Minutes%20May2011.pdf.
4. Future Events
CalConnect XXII: October 3-7, 2011, Kerio Technologies, Czech Republic
CalConnect XXIII: January 30 — February 3, 2012, TBD
CalConnect XXIV: May 21-25, Patricia Egen Consulting, Chattanooga, TN
The general format of the CalConnect week is:
Monday morning through Wednesday noon, CalConnect Interoperability Test Event
Wednesday noon through Friday afternoon, CalConnect Roundtable (presentations, TC sessions, BOFs, networking, Plenary)