Georgia Tech Contracts with Unicon to Develop CalDAV Support in Sakai
JA-SIG Spring 2008 - St. Paul, MN - April 28, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced that Georgia Tech has contracted with their company for a development project to implement the CalDAV standard protocol for the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. CalDAV is an industry standard protocol for sharing calendar events, meetings, and appointments across different platforms and calendar applications. Once the CalDAV protocol is available, Sakai will be able to publish calendar events to enterprise calendar applications such as Zimbra, Bedework, or other applications that support CalDAV. Additionally, events created in Sakai under CalDAV will be able to be managed and modified in Zimbra, or other CalDAV-supported applications, with the changes reflected back into the Sakai Calendar.
"The addition of CalDAV support introduces one more way in which Sakai can be a team player amidst other enterprise applications,” said Clay Fenlason, Director of Educational Technology for Georgia Tech. “Doing this work in the open brings real benefit to the Sakai Community while at the same time positioning the result for further enhancement from that community. It’s a great example of how the ‘gift economy’ of Community Source continues to drive us forward.”
"It’s thrilling to see support for another open standard in Sakai. Even more impressive, though, is the leadership that Georgia Tech and Unicon are showing in ensuring this project is built to benefit the entire Sakai community,” said Michael Korcuska, executive director for the Sakai Foundation. “In the long run, I'm sure Georgia Tech will benefit from this approach as more community members make contributions to advancing CalDAV support in Sakai."
About CalDAV
CalDAV is a protocol allowing calendar access via WebDAV. CalDAV models calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format, and models calendars containing events as WebDAV collections. This allows users to publish and subscribe to calendars, share them collaboratively, synchronize between multiple users and synchronize between multiple devices. The CalDAV protocol home page (http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/), created and maintained by the authors of CalDAV, contains links to specifications, mailing lists, implementations and other items useful to implementers and users of CalDAV.
