Introduction

CalConnect Conference XXXI took place on October 1-3, 2014, hosted by Youcanbook.me in Bedford, United Kingdom.. The CalConnect Conference was attended by 19 people from 13 members. The Interoperability Test Event was held immediately prior to the Conference on September 29 — October 1, February 3-5, and had 15 participants onsite from 9 members; an additional 4 people from 3 members attended the test event remotely. In total, 21 people from 13 organizations attended some portion of the week.

The Conference consisted primarily of technical committee sessions, workshops and BOFs. In addition a live demonstration of work under development was offered, plus a BoF (Birds of a Feather Session) and two Workshops. The 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. The Conference finished with the CalConnect Plenary Session on Friday afternoon.