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Bedework: Open Source Calendar System for the Enterprise

Bedework is an open-source enterprise calendar system that supports public, personal, and group calendaring. It is designed to conform to current calendaring standards with a goal of attaining strong interoperability between other calendaring systems and clients. Bedework is built with an emphasis on higher education, though it is used by many commercial enterprises.

You may choose to deploy Bedework for public events calendaring, personal calendaring and scheduling, or both. Bedework is built in Java and is suitable for embedding in other applications or in portals and has been deployed across a wide range of environments.

News & Updates

Bedework Mailing Lists Move to Jasig
On Wed, March 17th, the Bedework mailing lists, bedework-user, bedework-dev were migrated to the Jasig mailing list service.
Jasig Sponsors the Bedework Enterprise Calendar
Jasig, the non-profit consortium responsible for sponsoring open source higher education technology projects, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announced that Bedework, the enterprise calendar system, has become a fully sponsored Jasig project.
Bedework 3.6 released
February 3, 2010: The release includes a new default public theme based on work done at Duke and Yale Universities, internationalized skins, a feed builder and caching system, JMS, and performance improvements.
Mellon Foundation Ends 'Research in Technology' program
Why we need an XML representation for iCalendar, by Jon Udell
Jon Udell discusses an xml standard for icalendar in his blog
XML iCalendar on "Interviews with Innovators"
Mike Douglass, Bedework's chief architect, and Steven Lees of Microsoft discusses XML iCalendar on Jon Udell's show.
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.
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.