Design and Implementation issues for modifications to Chandler to make it useful in higher education settings.

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Issues

• centralization vs. decentralization
• security
• interoperablility with existing IT infrastructure
• support of existing and emerging standards

White Papers

After working closely with representatives from a number of universities we concluded there were four key recommendations for incremental functionality in Westwood:

1. Nomadic usage and central Repositories
2. Standards based Calendar Access Protocol (CAP) Client
3. Full interoperability with standards based infrastructure
4. Robust security framework

Westwood Requirements For a detailed look at the analysis of university requirements for Chandler see the following documents:

1. Power Point slide introduction
2. Executive Summary of Chandler for Higher Education Report
3. Full OSAF Report,Chandler for Higher Education (PDF)

We believe this plan to extend the functionality of Chandler complements the excitement of the original Chandler vision with a set of down-to-earth recommendations for meeting the particular needs of universities.

OSAF will seek funding for the additional resources required for the implementation of a higher education version of Chandler.

Other Documents

• Notes from a presentation to a subset of the NITLE colleges