[JDEV] iCalendar project?

Patrick Chanezon chanezon at netscape.com
Wed Mar 29 16:12:25 CST 2000


the Calendaring and Scheduling (calsch) IETF workgroup lists the relevant RFCs
for Calendaring.
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html

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David Waite wrote:

> I think this would be a really cool thing to have. I also think that this
> would be something to really help people understand that jabber is a 'lot
> more' than just an instant messaging protocol.
>
> Unfortunately, I also have zero time at the moment, and probably won't have
> a chance to do anything but voice opinions and insights on any new projects
> until the second week of May :)
>
> Could this be implemented as an interface to a calendar server, with
> (authorized) people adding and (even more authorized people) removing
> appointments in a scheduler, with notification messages sent to the user
> both when the schedule changed and when the user has requested
> 'notification' of something, say a meeting?
>
> Can you toss me a few links, protocols etc ?
>
> -David Waite
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Steeve
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:41 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] iCalendar project?
>
> I read something somewhere about a vCard namespace
> for jabber.  Has anyone talked about implementing
> an iCalendar project?
>
> Network calendaring seems to be very proprietary
> at the moment and the iCalendar protocol is being
> implemented at the speed of night, or so it seems.
>
> I've tried several times over the past couple of
> years to find some kind of network calendar server
> and client that will allow the users in the department
> some kind of network based calendaring.  But the
> only solutions I've found are expensive and mostly
> NT based.  I've been following Jabber development,
> as a background process, for a while now and was
> thinking that this might be a really kewl way
> to get network schedules implemented.  Any thoughts?
>
> --
> steeve SysAdmin EPS McGill University Mtl Qc
> :wq
>
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Patrick Chanezon, Vortex - Portal/EServices Technical Lead
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The other said: `The wind is moving.'
The sixth patriach happened to be passing by. He told them: `Not the wind, not
the flag; mind is moving.'"
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