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Version 2.1 of the Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms has been published. Version 2.1 adds 20 new terms including Autodiscovery, Consensus Scheduling, Event Publication, Managed Attachment, Timezone Service, VAVAILABILITY and VPOLL.

CalConnect, the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium (http://www.calconnect.org), will hold an open Workshop on Consensus Scheduling in conjunction with its member meeting, Roundtable XXVI, on Wednesday afternoon, 30 January, 2013, at Oracle Corporation in Santa Clara. This workshop will examine the state of the art with respect to consensus scheduling, and explore directions to integrate consensus [...]

The Interoperability Test Event will take place all day Monday and Tuesday, January 28-29, and Wednesday morning January 30th during CalConnect XXVI, hosted by Oracle in Santa Clara, California. For information about event logistics please see http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect26.shtml. At this point we are planning testing in the following areas (Updated 30 November 2012): CalDAV testing: access [...]

Registration is now open for CalConnect XXVI, January 28 – February 1, 2013, hosted by Oracle in Santa Clara, California. Monday and Tuesday all day and Wednesday morning will be the Interoperability Test Event; Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, and Friday will be the CalConnect Roundtable Technical Conference. Logistics information for this event may be found at [...]

CalConnect has established an Ad Hoc Committee to review the state of the VTODO component of iCalendar, together with outstanding requirements and use cases from other current work. The committee is to report out at Roundtable XXVI and will recommend possible future work in this area to CalConnect.

Our CalConnect events generally consist of two parts: the first half of the week is interoperability testing, and the last half is the Roundtable Technical Conference. At CalConnect XXV in Zurich, our second full CalConnect event in Europe, nearly everyone who participated in the interoperability testing stayed for the Roundtable, and we had a few [...]

This was a relatively large session with 22 on-site participants, 14 from Europe, representing the following organizations/implementations: Apple (iCal Server, iCal Client, iCloud Server, iCloud Outlook Client, IOS 6) Bedework CalDAV-Sync and CardDAV-Sync Evolution plugin EGroupware emClient Google Kerio Technologies Mozilla Lightning SabreDAV Zimbra In addition we had the following participate externally: AOL (AOL Calendar [...]

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes DHL Express as a member of the Consortium.