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“Contextualizing”the VA Scheduling Contest Workshop

CalConnect Conference XXX

May 21, 2014

Gary Schwartz

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Welcome & Introduction

How CalConnect rolls

Why a workshop?

What we hope to achieve

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How I roll

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CalConnect is a member-driven organization

CalConnect needs to influence the world, and CalConnect needs to be influenced by the world …

The future of calendaring and the future of CalConnect are intertwined – CalConnect helps shape the future of calendaring, & the future of calendaring will shape CalConnect.

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Conferences & Interoperability Test Events

Technical Committee reports, recommendations, proposals, standards/specifications

Collaborations with other organizations

Promotional & informational Activities

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Active Provisional Committees

CALSCALE Ad Hoc Recurrences in non-Gregorian calendars

CONTACTS PC Contacts and CardDAV Sharing

FSC Ad Hoc Federated Shared Calendars

Itinerary Ad HocDigital Travel Itineraries

Active Technical Committees

TC-API Abstract API for Calendaring & Scheduling

TC-AUTODISCOVERY Autodiscovery of services, using internet protocols

TC-CALDAV Development of CalDAV specifications

TC-EVENTPUB event publishing

TC-FREEBUSY Freebusy services including consensus scheduling

TC-ISCHEDULE Internet Scheduling Protocol (iSchedule)

TC-PUSH Generic framework for push notifications within CalDAV

TC-RESOURCE seamless interoperable resource scheduling

TC-TASKS iCalendar extensions for VTODO

TC-TIMEZONE Proposal for official Timezone Registry & Timezone Service Protocol

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Although CalConnect is not a standards organization…

Virtually every important calendaring or calendaring-related standard over the last 5 years has been authored, edited and/or coedited by members of a CalConnect Technical Committee. 

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Inform, and to be informed

Collaborate, explore, publicize, proselytize

Identity new areas of useful work

Energize the base

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Year Workshop Host Location

2014 VA Scheduling Contest

AOL Dulles, VA

2013 Travel ItinerariesFederated Shared Calendars

DHL Prague, Czech Republic

  Consensus Scheduling

Oracle Corp Santa Clara, CA

2011 Tasks NASA Ames Research Center

Mountain View, CA

2009 Timezone Microsoft Redmond, WA  Smart Grid

Interoperability Standards

NIST Washington, D.C.

2007 vCard MIT Cambridge, MA

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The Secretary of VA announces a prize contest …help Veterans schedule

appointments to receive care from Veterans Health Administration …

…help Veterans make appointments to receive outpatient & ambulatory care from VA Health Administration.  

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Why this workshop?

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A collection of challenge & prize competitions, which are run by 50+ agencies across federal government.

Technical, scientific, ideation, & creative competitions where the U.S. gov’t seeks innovative solutions from the public, bringing the best ideas and talent together ….

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Become informed

Identity new areas of useful work

Identity those interested in these new areas of useful work

To attract new members

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Accenture Federal Services

BT Global Services

Cox Software Architects

DSSinc

HP Enterprise Services

Leidos

MedicaSoft LLC

MediSked

MedRed

OSEHRA

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Systems Made Simple

TC9

Department of Veterans Affairs

CalConnect

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Carpe diem – continue the conversation

Many of our invited guests know each other…but CalConnect doesn’t really know you, and you don’t really know CalConnect.

Talk to those you do not yet know during breaks, during the reception

Help CalConnect understand needs and requirements w.r.t to the many, many different facets of healthcare scheduling

Let CalConnect help you understand open C&S standards

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We might make a real difference in the lives of real people – if we choose to work together