Chandler
What's in it for my university?
Oren Sreebny
University of Washington
Presented at Educause 2003
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Higher Ed Environment
- Information stored on large-scale enterprise servers.
- Access increasingly mediated by middleware.
- Desktop devices are not under central control.
- Use of multiple devices from multiple locations is typical.
- Extremely high turnover of user base.
- Edges of the enterprise are fuzzy.
Current Issues - Email
- Poorly behaved clients.
- IMAP used as if it's POP.
- Checking all folders for new messages (Outlook Express).
- Checking all folders for message count (OS X Mail app).
- Not supporting server-side features such as search or sort.
- Not supporting secure authentication mechanisms.
Current Issues - Calendaring
- No good implementation of interoperable protocols.
- No good enterprise-wide scalable solutions.
- Products which violate basic principles:
- Forced integration of calendaring with email (Exchange).
What Chandler Offers - Shorter Term
- A collaborative design process between OSAF and higher ed institutions.
- A chance to offer departments a better local solution for information management than Exchange.
- An opportunity to advance the state of support for interoperable standards.
What Chandler Offers - Longer Term
- A new open source set of tools for managing personal information in the enterprise.
- A chance to understand new ways of supporting fuzzy institutional borders.
- A chance to explore the ways new P2P paradigms interact with our server-based environment.
- A new working partnership between higher ed and open source developers.
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