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_posts/2004-08-20-calconnect-interopability-event-publicity-release.adoc

@@ -13,64 +13,5 @@ excerpt: |
 *August 20, 2004* +
 *CalConnect Interoperability Event Publicity Release*: The first publicity
 release issued by the Consortium following the July 29-30 2004 Event.
-link:{{'/docs/press-releases/0407interop1.pdf' | relative_url }}[CalConnect
-Interoperability Event Publicity Release].
-
-*Industry Leaders Score at Calendaring and Scheduling Interop*
-
-_IBM, Oracle Demonstrate Conformance with Key Parts of IETF
-Specification; + Interoperability Testing Highlights Need for Well-Focused
-Consortium*Berkeley, CA – August 20, 2004 –* On July 29-30, the University of
-California at Berkeley hosted the first calendaring consortium-sponsored
-testing event on the interoperable exchange of
-calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and
-technologies.
-
-“UC Berkeley has long depended on and fostered the use and development
-of standards,” noted Jeffrey McCullough, Principal Programmer,
-University of California, Berkeley. “Hosting this event was a great
-opportunity to further enhance interoperability in calendaring by
-providing forward thinking, standards compliant vendors a place to come
-together and test their products.”
-
-The technical goal of the Interop was to test a set of specifications
-developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), specifically
-RFC 2445-6 and 7: iCalendar, iTIP and iMIP. Organizers produced the
-event to move the RFCs forward toward standards status as well as to
-ascertain the need for an industry/customer consortium on calendaring
-and scheduling.
-
-Dr. Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Lotus Division,
-said, “IBM's Lotus Software helped lead the definition of the original
-iCal standards, and has supported them in our products since their
-publication in 1998. The standards represented an important step
-forward, but since then, the implementor community has learned a great
-deal about calendar interoperation.”
-
-Regarding the Interop, Dr. Borenstein added, “IBM's Lotus Software
-enthusiastically supports the efforts of the emerging Calendaring &
-Scheduling Consortium to revitalize the standards process and iron out
-the wrinkles that have kept Internet calendaring from reaching its full
-potential. We view this Interop as another step in the long march
-towards fully interoperable calendar systems, and look forward to
-further cooperation and progress.”
-
-“Oracle is delighted to have contributed to this interoperability
-testing event for the benefit of our customers and the global
-calendaring and scheduling community,” said Marten den Haring, Director
-of Product Management, Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar. “We support
-the development and promotion of emerging open standards as well as the
-efforts of a number of standards bodies, including the IETF. These
-efforts help build momentum for the adoption of an open protocol to
-access and manage calendaring information.”
-
-*Media Contact* +
-Maryann Karinch +
-970-577-8500 +
-[.underline]#[email protected]#
-
-*Consortium Contact* +
-Dave Thewlis +
-707-840-9391 +
-[.underline]#[email protected]#
 
+HTML: link:{{'/news/2004-08-20-industry-leaders-score-at-interop' | relative_url }}[Industry Leaders Score at Calendaring and Scheduling Interop].

_posts/2004-08-20-industry-leaders-score-at-interop.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title:  Industry Leaders Score at Calendaring and Scheduling Interop
+type: news
+date: 2004-08-20
+categories: press-releases
+excerpt: |
+  IBM, Oracle Demonstrate Conformance with Key Parts of IETF Specification;
+  Interoperability Testing Highlights Need for Well-Focused Consortium
+---
+:page-liquid:
+
+== Industry Leaders Score at Calendaring and Scheduling Interop
+
+_IBM, Oracle Demonstrate Conformance with Key Parts of IETF
+Specification; Interoperability Testing Highlights Need for Well-Focused
+Consortium_
+
+PDF: link:{{'/docs/press-releases/0407interop1.pdf' | relative_url }}[CalConnect Interoperability Event Publicity Release].
+
+*Berkeley, CA – August 20, 2004 –* On July 29-30, the University of
+California at Berkeley hosted the first calendaring consortium-sponsored
+testing event on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and
+scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms, and
+technologies.
+
+“UC Berkeley has long depended on and fostered the use and development
+of standards,” noted Jeffrey McCullough, Principal Programmer,
+University of California, Berkeley. “Hosting this event was a great
+opportunity to further enhance interoperability in calendaring by
+providing forward thinking, standards compliant vendors a place to come
+together and test their products.”
+
+The technical goal of the Interop was to test a set of specifications
+developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), specifically
+RFC 2445-6 and 7: iCalendar, iTIP and iMIP. Organizers produced the
+event to move the RFCs forward toward standards status as well as to
+ascertain the need for an industry/customer consortium on calendaring
+and scheduling.
+
+Dr. Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Lotus Division,
+said, “IBM's Lotus Software helped lead the definition of the original
+iCal standards, and has supported them in our products since their
+publication in 1998. The standards represented an important step
+forward, but since then, the implementor community has learned a great
+deal about calendar
+interoperation.”
+
+Regarding the Interop, Dr. Borenstein added, “IBM's Lotus Software
+enthusiastically supports the efforts of the emerging Calendaring &
+Scheduling Consortium to revitalize the standards process and iron out
+the wrinkles that have kept Internet calendaring from reaching its full
+potential. We view this Interop as another step in the long march
+towards fully interoperable calendar systems, and look forward to
+further cooperation and progress.”
+
+“Oracle is delighted to have contributed to this interoperability
+testing event for the benefit of our customers and the global
+calendaring and scheduling community,” said Marten den Haring, Director
+of Product Management, Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar. “We support
+the development and promotion of emerging open standards as well as the
+efforts of a number of standards bodies, including the IETF. These
+efforts help build momentum for the adoption of an open protocol to
+access and manage calendaring information.”
+
+*Media Contact* +
+Maryann Karinch +
+970-577-8500 +
+[.underline]#[email protected]#
+
+*Consortium Contact* +
+Dave Thewlis +
+707-840-9391 +
+[.underline]#[email protected]#
+

_posts/2004-10-05-roundtable-publicity-release.adoc

@@ -16,59 +16,5 @@ excerpt: |
 Consortium following the 23-24 September 2004 Roundtable on the Future
 of Interoperable Calendaring and Scheduling sponsored by the Consortium
 and hosted by Oracle.
-link:{{'/docs/press-releases/0409roundtable1.pdf' | relative_url }}[Roundtable Publicity
-Release].
-
-*Top Vendors, Users Act to End Problem of Incompatible Calendaring and
-Scheduling Products*
-
-*McKinleyville, CA – October 5, 2004 –* On September 23-24, industry
-leaders and major academic customers of calendaring and scheduling
-products focused on the path to +
-interoperability in a second event sponsored by the emerging Calendaring
-and Scheduling Consortium. Hosted by Oracle Corporation in Montreal, “A
-Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Interoperable Calendaring and
-Scheduling” participants included Duke University, IBM Lotus Software,
-Isamet, The Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Oracle, the Open Source
-Applications Foundation, Stata Labs, the University of California at
-Berkeley, the University of Washington, and Yahoo. It was a follow-up to
-a Consortium-sponsored testing event at the University of California,
-Berkeley on July 29-30.
-
-“A lack of interoperable calendaring and scheduling products is a major
-productivity barrier,” said Dave Thewlis, executive director of the
-Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. “It can lead to serious
-miscommunications, failed activities, and a huge waste of time.”
-
-By involving both the vendors and the user community, participants
-intended the Roundtable to contribute to measurable progress toward
-achieving interoperable calendaring and scheduling. Products of the
-Roundtable include statements of common vision and shared goals, a
-charter for the Consortium, and the kernel of an action plan.
-
-"A primary goal of the consortium is to further the design and
-implementation of calendaring and scheduling standards,” said Marten den
-Haring, director, Product Management, Oracle +
-Collaboration Suite Calendar. “The Roundtable's outcome is the blueprint
-for the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, and Oracle is proud to be
-one of the organizations involved with this effort, which will create
-initiatives that benefit collaboration.”
-
-Discussions at the event covered topics such as the applicability of
-existing forums; co-existence and harmonization with the Internet
-Engineering Task Force (IETF), customer and user involvement with use
-cases, requirements setting and directions; and interoperability testing
-and conformance.
-
-*Media Contact* +
-Maryann Karinch +
-970-577-8500 +
-[.underline]#[email protected]#
-
-*Consortium Contact* +
-Dave Thewlis +
-707-840-9391 +
-[.underline]#[email protected]#
-
-
 
+HTML: link:{{'/news/2004-10-05-vendors-users-interop' | relative_url }}[Top Vendors, Users Act to End Problem of Incompatible Calendaring and Scheduling Products].

_posts/2004-10-05-vendors-users-interop.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: Top Vendors, Users Act to End Problem of Incompatible Calendaring and Scheduling Products
+type: news
+date: 2004-10-05
+categories: press-releases
+excerpt: |
+  On September 23-24, industry leaders and major academic customers of calendaring
+  and scheduling products focused on the path to interoperability in a second event
+  sponsored by the emerging Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.
+---
+:page-liquid:
+
+== Top Vendors, Users Act to End Problem of Incompatible Calendaring and Scheduling Products
+
+PDF: link:{{'/docs/press-releases/0409roundtable1.pdf' | relative_url }}[Roundtable Publicity Release].
+
+*McKinleyville, CA – October 5, 2004 –* On September 23-24, industry
+leaders and major academic customers of calendaring and scheduling
+products focused on the path to
+interoperability in a second event sponsored by the emerging Calendaring
+and Scheduling Consortium. Hosted by Oracle Corporation in Montreal, “A
+Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Interoperable Calendaring and
+Scheduling” participants included Duke University, IBM Lotus Software,
+Isamet, The Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Oracle, the Open Source
+Applications Foundation, Stata Labs, the University of California at
+Berkeley, the University of Washington, and Yahoo. It was a follow-up to
+a Consortium-sponsored testing event at the University of California,
+Berkeley on July 29-30.
+
+“A lack of interoperable calendaring and scheduling products is a major
+productivity barrier,” said Dave Thewlis, executive director of the
+Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. “It can lead to serious
+miscommunications, failed activities, and a huge waste of time.”
+
+By involving both the vendors and the user community, participants
+intended the Roundtable to contribute to measurable progress toward
+achieving interoperable calendaring and scheduling. Products of the
+Roundtable include statements of common vision and shared goals, a
+charter for the Consortium, and the kernel of an action plan.
+
+"A primary goal of the consortium is to further the design and
+implementation of calendaring and scheduling standards,” said Marten den
+Haring, director, Product Management, Oracle
+Collaboration Suite Calendar. “The Roundtable's outcome is the blueprint
+for the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, and Oracle is proud to be
+one of the organizations involved with this effort, which will create
+initiatives that benefit collaboration.”
+
+Discussions at the event covered topics such as the applicability of
+existing forums; co-existence and harmonization with the Internet
+Engineering Task Force (IETF), customer and user involvement with use
+cases, requirements setting and directions; and interoperability testing
+and conformance.
+
+*Media Contact* +
+Maryann Karinch +
+970-577-8500 +
+[.underline]#[email protected]#
+
+*Consortium Contact* +
+Dave Thewlis +
+707-840-9391 +
+[.underline]#[email protected]#

_posts/2004-12-14-public-launch-release.adoc

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 layout: page
-title:  Top Vendors, Users Launch Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
+title: Top Vendors, Users Launch Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
 type: news
 date: 2004-12-14
 categories: press-releases
@@ -14,114 +14,5 @@ excerpt: |
 *December 14, 2004* +
 *Public Launch Release*: The publicity release issued by the Consortium
 to mark its public launch.
-link:{{'/docs/press-releases/041214publiclaunch.pdf' | relative_url }}[Public Launch
-Release].
-
-*Top Vendors, Users Launch Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium* _Goal:
-End the Problem of Incompatible Calendaring and Scheduling Products_
-
-*McKinleyville, CA – December 14, 2004 –* Seven vendors, six
-universities, two open source foundations, and a research
-facilityembership of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (), which
-named David C.
-
-Thewlis the first Executive Director. The on the interoperable exchange
-of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs,
-platforms, and technologies. The founding members are (in alphabetical
-order) Duke University, EVDB, Isamet, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Meeting
-Maker, M.I.T., The Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Open Source Application
-Foundation, Oracle Corporation, Stanford University, Symbian, UC
-Berkeley, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin Madison, and
-Yahoo! Inc.
-
-“Our members’ intent is to enable calendaring and scheduling tools and
-applications to enter the mainstream of computing,” said Dave Thewlis.
-“After email, the World Wide Web, and instant messaging, calendaring and
-scheduling capabilities are what business people and consumers will
-really care about.”
-
-“This isn’t simply about calendar programs,” noted Patricia Egen,
-Interop manager and member of the Board of Directors, who originated the
-idea of the Consortium. “This is about seamlessly connecting your
-calendar with others so that your professional and personal life runs
-more smoothly.”
-
-The Consortium, planned to have a three- to five-year lifespan in which
-to achieve its objectives, builds on work already accomplished or in
-progress within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Currently,
-large consumers such as universities and corporations face costly
-problems coordinating resources because departmental calendaring and
-scheduling applications may not be based on open standards that allow
-interoperability. Even standards-based systems from different vendors
-may not work together. With sets of IETF specifications as the heart of
-a solution, the Consortium provides a forum for vendors to mitigate
-conflicts between their competing products.
-
-The Consortium has a schedule of activities that give the relevant
-standards commercial value, that is, promotion, requirements setting,
-and validation. Events on the agenda include• Three to four interoperability testing events (“Interops”) a year, with
-the next one scheduled for January 11-12 in Seattle, WA.• Roundtables and Technical Committee meetings of the Consortium; the next
-is scheduled for 11-13 January in Seattle, WA, co-located with the
-Interop event.• Ongoing Technical Committee work, intended to provide feedback or
-information to IETF standards activities• Presentations at related conferences +
-Non-members are welcome to participate in the Interops, but Roundtables
-and Technical Committees are for members only.
-
-_Quotes from Members of the Steering Committee_
-
-Duke University (www.duke.edu) +
-“The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium appears to be re-invigorating
-the +
-development of calendaring standards that became stalled for a few
-years,” Michael Gettes, senior IT architect at Duke University, said.
-“We now have customer involvement along with all the important calendar
-standards leaders and vendors to ensure we develop interoperable
-solutions as quickly as possible. It is an exciting time for the
-calendaring industry.”
-
-The Mozilla Foundation (www.mozilla.org) +
-“The launch of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium represents a
-promising step forward in the development of critical calendaring
-standards,” said Mike Shaver of the Mozilla Foundation. “The Mozilla
-Foundation is excited to participate in the +
-Consortium's efforts to link users, vendors and protocol architects in
-pursuit of +
-universally interoperable calendaring.”
-
-Open Source Application Foundation (www.osafoundation.org) +
-“OSAF is pleased to be able to support the development of
-interoperable +
-calendaring solutions by becoming a founding member of the Calendaring +
-and Scheduling Consortium,” said Lisa Dusseault, Development manager,
-standards architect, OSAF. “The Consortium plays an important role in
-enabling the dialog between partners that is essential for the
-establishment of open and interoperable standards.”
-
-The University of Washington (www.cac.washington.edu) +
-“For years there has been a large need within higher education for
-interoperable standards-based calendaring,” noted Oren Sreebny;
-Director, Client Services +
-and Learning Technologies; Computing & Communications; University of +
-Washington. “This need is growing with the proliferation of online
-scheduling and pervasive portable devices. The ability for an
-organization like CalConnect to provide a neutral forum to encourage all
-interested parties to collaborate on solving these sets of issues and to
-demonstrate the usefulness of interoperation is critical for moving this
-mission forward. We are proud to be part of the founding of this
-organization, and look forward to working with the members to advance
-the state of the art in calendaring and scheduling.”
-
-The University of Wisconsin (www.doit.wisc.edu) +
-“The University of Wisconsin-Madison became a founding member of the
-Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium to help our campus customers,”
-explained Bill Scheuerell Director of Enterprise Internet Services,
-Division of Information Technology, +
-University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus. “Departments rely on integrated
-calendaring to organize university schedules. The consortium will help
-all of us set interoperability standards and system features, and
-communicate them to potential vendors.”
-
-Contact: Maryann Karinch, 970-577-8500, [email protected]
-
-
 
+HTML: link:{{'/news/2004-12-14-public-launch' | relative_url }}[Public Launch Release].