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EDUCAUSE Live! April 13, 2005 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT); runs one hour

Sharing Calendars over the Internet

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Mitchell KaporMitchell Kapor
President and Chair
Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF)

Mitchell Kapor is the president and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2001 to promote the development and acceptance of high-quality application software developed and distributed using open source methods and licenses. He is widely known as founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" that made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. Kapor has been at the forefront of the IT revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist. For more, see http://www.kapor.com/bio/.

Lisa DusseaultLisa Dusseault
Standards Architect and Development Manager
OSAF

Lisa Dusseault, an author and noted speaker on Internet standards, works on standards architecture and development management at the Open Source Applications Foundation. Prior to joining OSAF, Dusseault was director of server development at Xythos, where she managed their flagship product, the WebDAV-based WebFile Server. Before that, she was lead program manager at Microsoft, working on Exchange Server features. At OSAF, Dusseault will continue her work for the past eight years as an IETF contributor on various Internet applications protocols. She chairs the XMPP (Jabber) and WebDAV working groups and cochairs the IETF IMAP extensions working group. Dusseault proposed the CalDAV extensions to the WebDAV protocol in 2004.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Mitchell Kapor and Lisa Dusseault, and the topic will be "Sharing Calendars over the Internet."

This session reviews the work that's currently taking place to solve the problem of practical multiplatform sharing of calendar and scheduling data over the Internet. OSAF engineer Lisa Dusseult has introduced CalDAV, a proposal to the IETF standards body to extend the existing WebDAV standard to handle rich event-based data. CalDAV has been very well received and work is under way at OSAF, Mozilla, Oracle, Novell (as part of the newly open sourced Hula project), the University of Washington, and other places to implement this new standard in both clients and servers.

The session will also discuss CalConnect, a new consortium established to promote interoperable calendar and scheduling standards. In January 2005, CalConnect sponsored an interoperability event where several early versions of clients and servers successfully exchanged calendar information. The hope is that these efforts will lead to open standardization and implementations that will provide end users with the same simplicity in sharing calendars with friends and co-workers that they now enjoy in sharing e-mail messages.

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