And types on URLs! Mike
On 7/10/07, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FYI; note on-line questionnaire. I would suggest that the microformat "community" is a "key player", and that this is our opportunity to lobby for the inclusion of date-of-death, gender and perhaps place-of-birth/death (also useful in genealogy & biography). In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Thewlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >CalConnect invites you to a a one-day open workshop on vCard and what >should be done about it on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, at M.I.T. in >Cambridge, Massachusetts. This event is _open_ to vendors, customers, >CalConnect members and non-members alike. There is no fee, but you >_must_ register in advance and numbers are limited. Please see >http://www.calconnect.org/vcardworkshop.shtml for more information and >links to the registration <http://www.calconnect.org/vcardreg.shtml> >and logistics <http://www.calconnect.org/vcardworkshoplogistics.shtml> >pages, a general discussion list ><http://www.calconnect.org/vcardworkshoplist.shtml> about the workshop, >and a questionnaire ><http://www.calconnect.org/vcardquestionnaire.shtml> to give us more >guidance to make the workshop as productive as possible. > >>From the workshop introduction page: > >vCard is a well established standard for representing and transferring >contact information on computer systems and mobile devices. Having been >in use for a while, a number of areas of the specification have been >noted as problematic and in need of revision for fixes or enhancements. >To that end, CalConnect (the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium) is >hosting a one day vCard-focused workshop event at M.I.T. in Cambridge, >Massachusetts in September with the goal of bringing together the key >players to help move forward vCard revision efforts. > >Note that an effort is already under way at the IETF (Internet >Engineering Task Force) to develop a personal address book access >protocol based on the CardDAV specification, and since that is based on >vCard, a revision of the vCard specification will be taking place >within the IETF. However, bringing together interested parties in a >focused discussion at a workshop can help drive that effort and provide >supporting input to it to ensure the specific needs of the key players >is covered. > >The goal of the workshop is two-fold. First to determine the real >interest in revising the vCard specification, and second to determine >what needs to be revised and how to go about doing that. > > >If you are not a CalConnect member, this is also an opportunity to stay >on for Roundtable X <http://www.calconnect.org/roundtable10.shtml> as >an observer, and we'd be delighted to have you; you will have to >register separately for the Roundtable. >Regardless of whether or not you are interested in attending the >workshop, we would appreciate it very much if you would take a few >minutes to fill out the questionnaire ><http://www.calconnect.org/vcardquestionnaire.shtml>, as this will help >provide the workshop participants with guidance as to the directions >any progression on vCard should take. > > >-- >*Dave Thewlis, Executive Director >Calconnect - The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium* >+1 707 840 9391 (voice) · +1 707 498 2238 (mobile) >http://www.calconnect.org · [EMAIL PROTECTED] ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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