Hi Robert,

I was given your name by Clara Yu. We would like to schedule a phone call with you to discuss the relevance of our project for Southwestern University. I hope you might be available later this week or early next week.

We mainly want to chat about your perception of how your requirements for Chandler might vary from either our proposed public "server-optional" small group version, or from the more centrally managed, server-centric requirements the research universities require in the Westwood version.

In particular we are interested in your current email, calendar, and security infrastructure.

We'd also like to gage your interest in out project.

Sincerely,

Pieter Hartsook - Marketing Specialist Open Source Applications Foundation hartsook@osafoundation.org 510 928-9783 cel

---Background Information---

The Open Source Application Foundation (OSAF), is developing an information manager application, code-named "Chandler", with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Based on expressions of significant interest from research universities in the higher education community, we are considering how to address the issues of administration, scalability, and security in providing educational institutions with an open source software application to manage and share email, contacts, calendars and notes.

Results of OSAF�s study of research universities are available as a link on the OSAF website: http://osafoundation.org/Chandler_in_higher_ed_TOC_3002_05_13.htm.

In addition to larger research universities, OSAF wants to look at the requirements of small private liberal arts colleges represented by NITLE. A suite of open source productivity software applications may help all NITLE institutions reduce technology costs considerably. We are gathering some basic information in a brief online survey at: http://cet.middlebury.edu/evaluation/Chandler.php

-- PieterHartsook - 24 May 2004