Greg Reinacker’s linking to an extension for NewsGator (the RSS Outlook plugin) that takes advantage of the Event Share Framework (ESF) to share event information.
Where have I heard these lines before?
Recently, the need to share event information between entities has dramatically increased. Individuals desire to aggregate, publish and distribute event information in many locations, and by various means. Doing this has been made difficult because of a lack of a formal format by which to distribute this event information. The ESF is designed to provide that standard formant, allowing entities to communicate event information in a standard format and manner, by using an XML-grammar, which facilitates the aggregation of information, and provides a well-defined pattern of usage for instances of this grammar.
The major goal of the ESF is simplicity and extensibility. To that end, the ESF is built as an extension of the already popular and widely used RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 2.0 format
from the ESF site.
Gotta love the lazy web. Anyway, that just adds more options for XML calendaring, so we have to figure out exactly how we’re going to lay out or RSS files. I’ll implement the next iteration on the RSS hopefully pretty soon and get it to Stocker to go live on primetime E@S.
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