More about First Interop Sponsored by Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium

I'm very pleased to announce that the first Interop, and the public launch
of the Consortium, will be hosted by the University of California at
Berkeley, and will take place on the Berkeley campus.  UCB has reserved the
three proposed date ranges that I mentioned in the last e-mail:

Thursday-Friday 27-28 May
Thursday-Friday 8-9 July
Thursday-Friday 29-30 July

In all three cases the public launch event will take place the day before
in the late afternoon/early evening.

There has been some discussion about the value of having the event just
prior to the IETF meeting in San Diego on 1-6 August; the late July dates
would do this, and would allow participants to readily come into the Bay
Area for the Interop and then drop down to San Diego on Saturday for the
IETF meeting.  On the other hand we've gotten some comments about wanting
to have an Interop as quickly as possible.

We are waiting to do a final determination until we've gotten a bit more
feedback from the discussion list as to possible/probable participation and
preferred dates.

Please let me know or comment by the end of April; if we do go with late
May we need to move very fast indeed, and in any case it's only fair to let
UCB know the final choice as soon as we can.

The new Consortium website is up at www.calconnect.org and we're putting
more information on as rapidly as we can; you can also join the Consortium
online ;-)

Many thanks to the folks at the University of California at Berkeley. 

Dave Thewlis
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium