CalConnect Appoints New Roster of Officers

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) has announced a new roster of officers. Their first meeting, as part of the upcoming Roundtable XVI, will be at Apple, Inc. headquarters in Cupertino, California from October 7-9.

Gary Schwartz, Director of Communications & Middleware Technologies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, assumes the role of President. A 25-year veteran of higher education IT, he also chairs CalConnect’s Freebusy Technical Committee and co-authored “CalConnect EDST Reflections and Recommendations.”

Pat Egen continues as Chairman of the Board. She has been in the field of computers for over 28 years, working in IT Management for Ryder System in Miami and Unum Provident in Chattanooga. In 1997 she started Patricia Egen Consulting, an IBM Business partner.

Kellie Hunter was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Her career spans nearly 20 years in the high tech industry with a focus on developing innovative, dynamic software for large-scale enterprise deployments. As the Director of Product Management at PeopleCube, she manages the development of all product lines. 

Dave Thewlis, executive director of CalConnect, continues as secretary. He has been involved in computing and information technology for 40 years.  Though his consulting firm, he has served a number of large vendors and customer organizations. His positions with SHARE, the oldest computer user organization, have included Director, Vice President and Chief Standards Officer.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organizational members are Apple, Cabo Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, IceWarp, Intand, Kerio Technologies, MailSafe, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, NASA, neutralSpace, New York University, Notify Technology, Oracle, Patricia Egen Consulting, PeopleCube, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, SWAMI (Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure), Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, University of California, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo!/Zimbra, and ZideOne.

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The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations.