2012-06-12 The Many Faces (or Facets) of Bedework

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Title

The Many Faces (or Facets) of Bedework

Presenters

Gary Schwartz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Barry Leibson (Girasole Soutions)

Date and time (EDT)

June 12 1:15 PM

Room

Conference Center Room 4

Facilitator

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Description

The Bedework Enterprise Calendaring System was conceived in 2005, with the first production release, Bedework 3.0, in March 2006. Bedework has been a Jasig sponsored project since March 2010.

Bedework was originally envisioned as "a calendar system for higher education", albeit not exclusively so, with components for public events calendaring and personal calendaring. Bedework has been deployed as a 'standalone' calendaring system, but it has also been integrated into other software systems, both open source and proprietary.

Increasingly we are looking to exploit Bedework beyond its capabilities as a standalone calendaring system, looking towards what we refer to as 'calendaring as a platform', or more grandiosely as "W2C - The World Wide Calendar." Bedework 3.8, our most recent release of January 2012, adds significant capabilities with respect to the "The World Wide Calendar" vision.

We will present scenario-based examples of deploying Bedework beyond its traditional roles, hopefully inspiring new, even wider-ranging scenarios including:

* Campus-wide communications

* Smartphone applications

* "Fronting" Bedework with PhP or Ruby

* Calendar aggregating

* Using Bedework components outside of the Bedework system proper

* Using Bedework Web Services

 This session is not a "how-to-do-it" session for developers, but a "what can be done" and "what has been done" session for IT support staff and management, and end users alike.

Materials