[JDEV] Calendar Application

[Jim Ray]

At the time there was an effort to create an RDF-iCal standard.  This work
has continued.  I don't know where they are right now.  But the site is at:

http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/04/calendar/

There's a presentation available here:

http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2001/papers/pdf/s08-3.pdf

And an Outlook -> RDF Converter here, it also provides some type of ANS
service:

http://www.daml.ri.cmu.edu/Cal/

I'm still very interested in doing this, but bandwidth is an issue.  If you
would like you can mail me offline and I can give you more information that
I have found.

The problem I ran into was that there is no formal XML way to store or send
calendar information.  iCal isn't in XML, at one time someone had done an
iCal in XML document,
http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-dawson-ical-xml-dtd-01.html.  This
work was done in Dec 98 and expired in June 99.  I emailed the person who
originally wrote this and never got a response about it.

Then I found the RDF Calendar group.  The work they are doing is nice and
seems like it would provide a better solution than just the XML version.  

I could start a JEP for this. 

The Jabberzilla implementation was going to be client only.  And store the
calendaring information in jabber:iq:private.  So there would be no query
abilities or anything.  It wasn't going to be the best solution.  
 
 
Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric C. Snowdeal III [mailto:eric at snowdeal.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:43 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Calendar Application
> 
> this might be off topic, since it's more about jabberzilla than jabber,
> but about 6 or so months ago, it looked like there was some activity
> around  using jabberzilla [1-2].  i know the jabberzilla whiteboarding
> work has continued, but it looks like the calendar stuff has stalled.
> anyone know how far along this was taken?
> 
> [1] http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=6473066&list=121
> [2] http://mozdev.org/pipermail/jabberzilla/2001-September/000136.html
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
> >Not yet. We've been talking about it for a long time, though!
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >--
> >Peter Saint-Andre
> >email+jabber: stpeter at jabber.org
> >weblog: http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/
> >
> >On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Heya,
> >>
> >>Are there already any Efforts to use Jabber as Calendar Backend, i.e.
> >>to coordinate Dates via a Central Jabberserver and let it allocate
> >>Rooms, Cars and so on.
> >>Somehow like M$ Exchange and L'otes or Netscape Calendar do.
> >>
> >>(Specific, i search a Replacement for the latter one)
> >>
> >>
> >>thanks,
> >>	-mc
> >>--
> >>| Rico -mc- Gloeckner |   <rico at gloeckner.info>   | {ICQ:99798577} |
> >>| http://www.ukeer.de | mc (at) irc.tu-ilmenau.de | <mc at na.sow.as> |
> >>| Jabber: mc at micq.org |                                          :wq
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