Google To Host CalConnect Testing Event and Conference in Zurich

Sept. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- CalConnect (The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium; www.CalConnect.org) will hold its second European conference in Zurich, Switzerland, October 1-5, 2012. The conference, consisting of an interoperability testing event, symposia, and technical meetings, will be hosted by Google at the company’s Zurich campus.

“CalConnect’s members include many that are Europe-based or have major development centers in Europe,” noted Executive Director Dave Thewlis. “As standards and interoperability are central to CalConnect’s mission, and are strong, core values of European Information Technology, we have long recognized the importance of European involvement in CalConnect.”  CalConnect has already held special test events in Europe and 2007 and 2008, and its first full conference and interoperability test event in Prague in 2011.

The first two and one-half days in Zurich will feature an Interoperability Test Event. The last two and one-half days are the Technical Conference (Roundtable), which will include workshops, symposia, and technical committee sessions, including discussions of problems, alternatives, and participation in the work of the Technical Committees. An non-member organization or individual attending for the first time may register for one or both events for a single registration fee.

For information on CalConnect’s current work in progress, visit http://www.calconnect.org/currentwork.shtml.  The technical sessions will focus on aspects of this work in addition to special focus items.

Interoperability Testing Event

CalConnect’s interoperability test events offer those with calendaring implementations a chance to test against others one-on-one. Events are structured to allow “testing pairs” in which each participant gets a chance to test with everyone in the course of the event.  Areas of expected testing in Zurich include:
•   iSchedule
•   Web Services (CalWS TEST and CalWS SOAP)
•   CalDAV Access
•   CalDAV Calendar Sharing and Notifications
•   CalDAV Scheduling (including implicit scheduling)
•   iMIP and iMIP Gateways
•   CardDAV
•   Timezone Service Protocol

Thewlis added, “The Interoperability Test Event is open to both members and non-members. You do not need finished or polished code to participate in the IOP testing; in fact as soon as you have something working at all, testing against other implementations, including established products as well as those under development, can greatly accelerate debugging and code development.”
Full information about the conference may be found at CalConnect XXV (http://www.calconnect.org/calconnect25.shtml). Special pricing is available for non-members and individuals.


About CalConnect
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (www.CalConnect.org) is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling.

Members are AOL, Apple, Ralf Becker, Cabo Communications, Carnegie Mellon, eM Client, Gershon Janssen, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, IceWarp, Ltd., Intand, Kerio Technologies, MailSite Software, Inc., Andrew McMillan, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, New York University, Nokia Corporation, OASIS, The Omni Group, Oracle, Patricia Egen Consulting, PeopleCube, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (Bedework), Pascal Robert, Synchronica Plc, TimeTrade Systems, University of California, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Yahoo!, and Zimbra, a division of VMware