Dear Folks,
I'm Dave Thewlis, the Executive Director of CalConnect - The
Calendaring
and Scheduling Consortium.
Andy Mabbott suggested that I cross-post to this list as
there are
people in the microformats world interested in vCard (and in
calendaring, for that matter). Unfortunately I managed to
space doing
it until just now. Fortunately, I have something additional
to add to
the post that prompted Andy's suggestion.
The subject is a revision to the vCard specification to be
undertaken by
the IETF, and whether CalConnect will undertake a technical
committee to
do use cases, requirements, promotion, interoperability
testing, and the
likem in support of that work.
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(1) Here is my posting to the CalConnect lists that prompted
Andy's
suggestion, dated November 5th:
Seven weeks ago we held our vCard workshop. Two of the
outcomes were
(a) that Chris Newman from the IETF thought he saw strong
enough support
for doing a revision of vCard that he was going to start
movement in the
IETF towards a working group to this end, and
(b) CalConnect would initiate a vCard Technical Committee IF
it could
find resources to support the committee. This essentially
meant new
people from existing members and/or people from new members,
as the
current volunteers are pretty well maxed out.
CalConnect was to post a draft charter for a vCard TC on
the
vcard-workshop-l list (the public list we set up to support
the
workshop). Interested parties were encouraged to offer
help, either on
the vcard-workshop-l list, or directly to me.
If we could not find anyone to do the work (usecases,
requirements,
possibly IOP test development, and promotion) then there was
no point in
going forward.
The draft charter was posted a month ago. There were two
replies.
Since then nobody has said anything especially about
volunteering to help.
Therefore, this e-mail is a "final" call for
action. If you or your
organization is interested in actually seeing something
positive happen
about a vCard revision, *please* speak up - on the
vCard-workshop-l
list, or to me - and let me know. We need a few TC
participants. And
we need some organization to step up and offer a Chair for
the TC. And
we could use a person or two to help with writing whatever
documents we
produce.
Here is a chance for an organization with a serious interest
in seeing
something good happen with vCard and who isn't a member to
step up, get
involved, and take a leadership role.
But if you are interested, if you can help, if you can just
attend the
occasional call and read a document, let us know. Even if
you are an
existing participant, if you think you could put a bit of
effor into
this, we wouldn't deny you the opportunity 
If we do NOT get any responses, then we must conclude that
there is
still not enough interest to actually do something about a
vCard
revision -- and we will table the idea.
Hoping to hear from you!
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(2) Here is a follow-on posting from yesterday, December 16,
on the
current status of vCard issues:
The IETF has approved a charter for a vCard Working Group
and sent it to
the IESG for approval, and work has begun on updating and
republishing
the existing vCard draft. This means that there should be a
vCard
Working Group initated, or a vCard BOF, at the March IETF
meeting, with
documents to consider.
In turn, this means it is time for CalConnect to start
forming its vCard
Technical Committee to inform the IETF working group. A
proposed
charter for this TC was circulated on the vcard-workshop-l
list some
weeks ago, and may be found at the following URL (near the
bottom of the
page:
h
ttp://www.calconnect.org/vcardworkshopreport.shtml
We have had some interest expressed in working on this issue
from
CalConnect members and from others, and it's time to decide
what we are
gong to do going forward.
*We plan a public (open to members and nonmembers)
conference call for:
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 1100-1200 Eastern (0800 Pacific,
1600 U.K.,
1700 CET).
Call-in information:
Phone #: +1 605 990 0100
Confid: 879307#*
Please join us on this call if you are interested in seeing
the vCard
specification move forward. We'll talk about current status
since the
workshop, the charter we have proposed, and plan to identify
participants for a CalConnect Technical Committee to work in
conjunction
with the IETF WG.
Please feel free to pass this e-mail on to others who would
be
interested in the subject, and encourage them to attend.
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So we are going to have that call on Friday, January 11th,
and anyone
interested in vCard is welcome to attend. Meantime, you are
also
welcome to join the vcard-workshop list mentioned above:
see
htt
p://www.calconnect.org/vcardworkshoplist.shtml
This list might be reincarnated with a different name but
the same
subscription list going forward; we'll see after the January
11th call.
And finally, if you are interested in calendaring, please
take a look at
the CalConnect website and what we're doing. Right now we
don't really
have any participation from the Microformats domain, but
hopefully that
can change going forward.
Hope to hear from you!
Best Regards,
Dave Thewlis
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*Dave Thewlis, Executive Director
Calconnect - The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium*
+1 707 840 9391 (voice) · +1 707 498 2238 (mobile)
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