overview
Bedework: Open Source Calendar System for the Enterprise
Bedework is an open-source, enterprise
calendar system designed to conform to current calendaring standards.
Made for higher education and built in Java, Bedework has a
centralized server architecture allowing immediate update of
public and personal calendaring information.
News & Updates
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New CalDAV Protocol website made available
A new website for the CalDAV Protocol has been established at http://caldav.calconnect.org/. CalDAV is a calendaring and scheduling client/server protocol designed to allow users to access calendar data on a server, and to schedule meetings with other users on that server or other servers. The CalDAV Access protocol has been standardized by the IETF and published as RFC 4791.
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Bedework & Large Venue Ticketing (pdf)
Bedework was recently used as the central component in a ticketing system for Rensselaer's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, exploiting the calendar as an application platform.
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Bedework 3.4.1.1 Released
June 3, 2008: We are pleased to announce the release of Bedework 3.4.1.1. See our recent changes for details.
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Bedework Visits Europe
In November 2007, members of the Bedework team along with Dave Thewlis, the Executive Director of CalConnect, traveled to England, Denmark, Sweden and Spain to meet with European developers.
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Bedework Provides Support to the Open Connector Project
Bedework, the open-source, enterprise calendar system for higher education, will be working closely with the Open Connector Project, developers of open-source extensions for Microsoft Outlook ®, to better support CalDAV in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.
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Bedework at "1"
Reflections on Bedework's one year anniversary.
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IETF publishes CalDAV Proposed Standard - RFC 4791 (PDF)
CalDAV has moved from draft to RFC. CalConnect, the calendaring and scheduling consortium - of which the Bedework developers are members, has released this press release (PDF) lauding the development.
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Bedework Receives Mellon Foundation MATC Award
Bedework was among the 10 initial recipients of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Technology Collaboration (MATC) award for leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with particular application to higher education and not-for-profit activities.