Microsoft Community Events Advisory Board

Goal: To determine how to standardize events for the Microsoft community and how to exchange the events from one system to another.  To create a standard format for events and open network of communication.

Conference call dates:
June 4th, 2009 @ 12:00 PM EST
Aug 6th, 2009 @ 12:00 PM EST
Nov 5th, 2009 @ 12:00 PM EST

If you would like to attend these calls, please contact Brendon Schwartz (support@devcow.com).

Founder/Leader: Brendon Schwartz (DevCow)

Board Members:
Brendon Schwartz (DevCow)
Matt Ranlett (DevCow)
Rob Zelt (INETA)
Darrin Bishop (ISPA)
Andrew Duthie (Community Megaphone)
MORE TBD...

Participating Event Sources:
DevCow - http://www.devcow.com
INETA - http://www.ineta.org/
Community Megaphone - http://www.communitymegaphone.com/
ISPA - http://www.sharepointpros.org

Hopeful other sites:
UserGroup Support Services - http://www.ugss.codezone.com/
Culminis - http://new.culminisconnections.com/
PASS - http://www.sqlpass.org/
DevFish - http://www.devfish.net
Click to attend - http://www.clicktoattend.com/
DevEvents - http://www.devevents.com/

Current communication standards under review:
RSS
ATOM
hClendar - http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
iCalendar - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

Supporting Applications or Frameworks:
OOMPH -  http://visitmix.com/Lab/oomph