Stanford University has joined Calconnect, a Consortium to promote Calendaring and Scheduling.
Calconnect will hold joint meetings annually and Stanford will participate in these around general topics as well as contribute to subgroups working on specific technical topics of relevance to enterprise calendaring.
Consortium Members
Members of the Consortium include representatives from universities, commercial software vendors, research centers, and open-source foundations. Current members are:
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin
- Stanford University
- Duke University
- UC Berkeley
- JPL/NASA/CALTECH
- M.I.T.
- OSAF
- Mozilla Foundation
- EVDB Inc.
- Isamet, Inc.
- Meeting Maker, Inc.
- Novell
- Oracle Corporation
- Symbian Ltd.
- Yahoo!
Consortium Goals
Provide interoperability testing and conformance: The Consortium will host Round Table discussions and interoperability testing events two to three times per year at host member locations or public locations. These events offer an opportunity for members and non-members to evaluate their products and applications against Calendaring and Scheduling standards for conformity to the standards, and for interoperability between products.
Promote the general awareness of interoperable Calendaring and Scheduling: Planned methods to promote general awareness include:
- Press releases,
- Focus in media publications,
- Trade shows,
- Editorials and op ed pieces, articles and white papers,
- Speaking opportunities at conferences and symposia, and
- Publicity events and releases concerning Interoperability events.
Promote design and implementation of Calendaring and Scheduling standards: In addition to providing a vehicle for demonstrating that Calendaring and Scheduling products, applications and tools correctly implement the relevant standards, the Consortium intends to promote further work on Calendaring and Scheduling standards as appropriate.
Promote collaboration among members: The Consortium provides a vehicle for assisting and promoting collaboration among its members in the area of Calendaring and Scheduling. Major areas where such collaboration is expected to be useful are the implementation of Technical Committee work to further Calendaring and Scheduling technologies and standards.
Promote the common goals of members: The Consortium will establish a member forum devoted to establishing and promoting the common goals of members. In particular the Consortium will establish common "messages" of the members as a basis for promotional materials and publicity on Calendaring and Scheduling.
For More Information
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