3. General Status and Items from Conference XLIV

The Time Zone Workshop planned by TC DATETIME was held on Tuesday afternoon. Subsequent steps will be determined for TC DATETIME.

• Summary of event to timezonediscuss public mailing list.

• Press release writeup for news feed.

• Modify a system to fetch time zone data from a TZDIST server

• Investigate whether IANA could/would operate a TZDIST server

• Learn more about ISO TC 154 work to establish registry for time zone data

An Ad Hoc Committee on Rich Text (in Calendar events) was formed and will conduct several calls over February and early March; the committee is due to finish by mid-March.

An Ad Hoc Committee on Use Cases was formed to consider UI issues for displaying multiple time zones and develop best practice advice for UI developers.

The committee will develop a Charter for a new TC USECASE to be considered at the next CalConnect event.

TC CALSPAM finished its work and will be closed following any updates from the next M3AAWG conference in late February. Open issues will be transferred to TC CALENDAR.

CalConnect has approved the new Standards Directives. Work continues with related items such as revised IPR and Copyright policies, and a co-publishing agreement with ISO and other organizations.

Feedback was obtained on the new conference format as used at this meeting. The consensus was that identifying sessions by category was not as important as early descriptions of the planned sessions.

Plan for a 1-day hackathon on the Monday of the event week, with the conference itself Tuesday-Friday. Establish a small charge to give those who signed up some stake in actually coming.

Start to build in more testing time as JSCalendar gets more traction. Way to involve non-members (perhaps via hackathon?)

Advertise events (and hackathon) more to non-members.