One of the more frustrating aspects of calendaring systems is that the freebusy lookups are all proprietary. Meeting invitations can be sent from one system to another (assuming you know a time to meet). However, it is not possible to lookup when someone from Lotuslive, someone from gmail and someone from Yahoo are all available [...]
So for a while now, we have been trying to figure out a standard means to lookup someone’s freetime from their calendar (called freebusy in the calendaring world). We knew we wanted a REST service that could be passed url parameters, we even had a demo one up on the net.
The problem, though, had always [...]
So here is the first rough draft of the CalAtom spec.
We’ve made a few changes since the earlier posts on CalAtom, probably the biggest is the fact that CalAtom clients and servers MUST support xcal representations of calendar data.
I expect this to change a fair bit before formally posting the spec (I, at least need [...]
As a follow up to the Freebusy Lookup posting I wanted to point out a demo that Dan Gurney has put together on top of Domino. This approach to free busy is similar to the one outlined in the Freebusy Lookup post. Here are the details for how to get yourself setup with a Calendar [...]
I have published the CalAtom presentation that was presented at CalConnect. I am still not that happy with searching, but following a chat with James, I now think that A9’s Opensearch may provide some of the missing pieces.
I attended part of the CalConnect roundtable in Cambridge this week, had some great discussions and also got to see the group’s reaction to CalAtom. It was met with very mixed reactions and we definitely left a little bruised but I think there is some real potential and interest there.
Anyway this post wasn’t intended to [...]