Presentation

On Fri, Jun 30, I'm giving a talk on Cosmo and CalDAV at ApacheCon. Here's the current version of the presentation and below are links to many of the things discussed.

• ApacheCon2006Cosmo.ppt
• ApacheCon2006Cosmo.pdf

Brief overview:

• OSAF: Cosmo and its architecture, Chandler and Scooby
• OSAF Ecosystem goals: easy sharing of personal information under user control
• WebDAV in .mac and OSAF sharing
• An architecture for Web apps and rich applications (plus mobiles)
• Specifically calendaring: CalDAV calendar access for rich applications and mobiles
• CalDAV architecture
• CalDAV challenges: recurrences and timezones, permissions and auth, tickets
• Next steps

Links

OSAF etc. links

• OSAF home
• Chandler Project home page
  • Releases -- Wait for 0.6 or try 0.5.08
• Cosmo Home page for contributors
  • Cosmo administrator documentation
  • Jackrabbit
  • JCR/JSR170 -- Java Content Repository API
• Scooby Home page
• Zanshin: HTTP, WebDAV and CalDAV client -- resource oriented.

CalDAV/WebDAV links

• CalDAV home page
  • Article on CalDAV
  • Participant discussion list
• WebDAV home page
• CALSIFY WG working on next revision of iCalendar standards (RFC2445, 2446, 2447)
• WebDAV Tickets draft
• Calendar Consortium -- interop, roundtables discussing calendar requirements, implementations and standards
  • Federated Free/Busy Challenge
• GroupDAV -- simpler groupware sharing
  • GroupDAV spec
• HTTP Auth requirements/improvements discussion list

Other implementations

• Sunbird FAQ
• Evolution Product page
  • Evolution CalDAV provider (plugin now but planned for core)
• Oracle 10g strategy (PDF)
• Bedework: RPI/UW calendar server
  • RPI/UW FAQ
• Hula

-- LisaDusseault - 17 Jun 2006