History: LearningManagementDesiredFeaturesCalendar

We should keep an eye on the Chandler development project. They're building an open source version of MS Outlook, and furthermore gearing it toward educational use. They have about 8 million dollars in funding, and a top-notch team. Collaboration would make sense.

Chandler is taking a fresh view of calendar, email, contacts, and instant messaging functionality, and will feature sophisticated information sharing based on easy, server-optional networking. Inspired by expressions of significant interest from the higher education community, OSAF began working with the members of the CSG to determine how to address their desire for open source standards-based calendaring solutions, as well as interoperability, scalability and security requirements.

See this announcement about getting $2.75 million from various universities to build a system that works for them. — tim