Chandler What's in it for my university?

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 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.