Foreword
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (“CalConnect”) is a global non-profit organization with the aim to facilitate interoperability of technologies across user-centric systems and applications.
CalConnect works closely with liaison partners including international organizations such as ISO, OASIS and M3AAWG.
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This document was prepared by Technical Committee CALCONNECT.
Introduction
Roundtable XXIII took place on February 1-3, 2012, hosted by Apple in Cupertino, California. The event was attended by 35 people from 16 organizations. The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event was held immediately prior to the Roundtable on January 30 — February 1. Twenty-one people from 8 organizations were present onsite, including representatives from five different areas in Apple.
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 XXIII, February 1-3, 2012
1. Special Events
Two “implementation” BOFs were held during the Interoperability Test Event on Monday and Tuesday afternoons:
Update versus replacement of calendar and contact data
Auto-discovery and account provisioning
We expect the findings and output from the BOFs to inform future work in CalConnect, either in the context of one or more existing Technical Committees or in possibly forming new Technical Committees. The host session was chaired by Wilfredo Sánchez of Apple, and discussed the adoption and implementation of open standards in Apple’s calendaring products.
3. Update on Technical Committee Work and Initiatives
Roundtable session summaries and activities and a report on the Interoperability Test Event may be found at http://calconnect.org/minutes/CalConnect%20Minutes%20Feb2012.pdf.
4. Future Events
CalConnect XXIV: May 21-25, 2012, Patricia Egen Consulting, Chattanooga, Tennessee
CalConnect XXV: October 1-5, 2012, Google, Zurich, Switzerland
CalConnect XXVI: January 28 — February 1, 2013, TBD
CalConnect XXVII: June 3-7, 2012, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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)