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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>my apologies for being slightly off topic, but I guess this might
be interesting to see some of you / related to some topics
discussed on this list.</p>
<p>Please feel also free to forward this to anybody you might have
in mind, who is dealing with novel calendaring solutions and ideas
and might be interested in community discussion.</p>
<p>Thanks and best,<br>
Hans-Joerg<br>
</p>
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<p>CalendarFest is a novel (virtual) event, which wants to let users
and developers of (electronic) calendar applications, servers, and
related groupware systems, share experiences and discuss novel
ideas.</p>
<p>CalendarFest will take place <strong>18th of October</strong>,
02:30h PM UTC virtually via Zoom, and is held in conjunction with
the <a
href="https://www.calconnect.org/events/calconnect-virtual-conference-autumn-2021"
rel="nofollow">CalConnect virtual conference</a>.</p>
<h4>Lightning talks</h4>
<p>People who wish to discuss or present certain topics are invited
to submit a <strong>proposal for lightning talks</strong>.</p>
<p>Lightning Talk presentations will be a maximum of 15-20 minutes
each. Presenters may use slides, but these must be submitted to
the Lightning Talks chair a few days before the presentation.</p>
<h4>Proposals</h4>
<p>Lightning Talk proposals must be submitted in PDF format. The
proposal is limited to 1 page, 500 words max. The full proposal
contains a title, an abstract (maximum 250 words) and a
description where you should explain your talk in more detail. It
will be helpful for reviewers to know why you are excited about
the topic, and why you think others will be interested too.
Outline how you plan to present your topic. The proposal also may
contain a link to a website with more information.</p>
<h4>Possible Topics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enterprise calendaring</li>
<li>Public calendaring</li>
<li>Calendaring and Semantic Web/Linked Data</li>
<li>Calendar Interoperability and Migration</li>
<li>Calendaring Security and Privacy by Design</li>
<li>Personal information management (PIM) and groupware</li>
<li>AI in calendaring</li>
<li>Calendaring and scheduling in IoT</li>
<li>Mobile calendaring</li>
<li>Calendar visualization, user experience and usability</li>
<li>Novel applications of calendars</li>
<li>Calendaring standards (vCard, iCal, CalDAV, CardDAV, JMAP)</li>
<li>Date/Time representations and Time zones</li>
<li>Business models for calendaring and groupware</li>
</ul>
<h4>Program committee</h4>
<p>Submissions will be reviewed by the following members of the
CalConnect TC-CLIENT technical committee:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mike Douglass</li>
<li>Hans-Jörg Happel</li>
<li>Alex Nimmervoll</li>
</ul>
<h4>Timeline</h4>
<ul>
<li>Send your lightning talk proposal to <strong><a
href="mailto:calendarfest@calconnect.org">calendarfest@calconnect.org</a></strong>
until <strong>October, 4th</strong></li>
<li>You will receive a notification of acceptance or reject by
October, 11th</li>
<li>CalendarFest will take place on October, 18th</li>
</ul>
<h4>Participation</h4>
<p>Participation at CalendarFest will be free for presenters of
accepted talks. Other participants need to <a
href="https://www.calconnect.org/news/2021/09/02/registration-open-october-2021-calconnect-virtual-conference"
rel="nofollow">register</a> for a small organizational fee,
which also allows for participation at the “colocated” CalConnect
Virtual Conference.</p>
<h4>About</h4>
<p>CalConnect (<a href="http://www.calconnect.org" rel="nofollow">www.calconnect.org</a>)
is a non-profit partnership between vendors and users of
collaboration systems and tools, in particular calendaring and
scheduling. CalConnect members convene regularly to discuss and
develop standards for electronic calendaring and related topics.</p>
<p>The goal of CalendarFest, which is held in conjunction with the
CalConnect Virtual Conference, is to provide an interdisciplinary
discussion space for current topics in electronic calendaring from
different perspectives.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<b>CalendarFest website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://public.calconnect.org/CalendarFest/">https://public.calconnect.org/CalendarFest/</a></b>
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