Introduction

Roundtable XIII took place October 8-10, 2008, hosted by Yahoo!/Zimbra in Santa Clara, California. The event was attended by 52 people from 19 organizations, including representatives from two observers (organizations attending a Roundtable to see if they wish to join).

The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event (CITE) was held immediately prior to the Roundtable, October 6-8. Eleven organizations and 27 people participated in the regular test event, performing interoperability testing between their calendaring and scheduling implementations. A reports on the CITE will be published as soon as information has been delivered from all participants.

The Roundtable was dedicated to technical committee sessions, BOFs, and informal discussions and networking, with an all-hands Plenary meeting as the last item on Friday afternoon. The Technical Committee sessions were as usual organized sequentially, without competing parallel sessions, as is our standard practice to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of each Technical Committee the opportunity to do so.

An additional ten invitees joined us for the Technical Previews session on Wednesday afternoon. The previews demonstrated live interoperability in the areas of CalDAV Scheduling, iSchedule Server-Server scheduling, and Free/Busy URL. The presentation accompanying the life demos will be made available shortly on the CalConnect website.