OSAF receives $98,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

OSAF is pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has agreed
to provide a $98,000 grant to fund a planning project to extend OSAF's
Chandler software application to meet the information technology needs of
higher education.

We originally planned for Chandler to target individual and small-to-medium
business users that need a better tool to manage and share their email,
contacts, calendars and notes. Based on expressions of significant interest
from the higher education community, OSAF, with support of the Mellon
Foundation, is undertaking a study of how to address administration
scalability, and security issues of that segment.

We are still focused on our original target of supporting small-to-medium
groups in a decentralized fashion.  However, if it looks feasible and we are
able secure the funding, OSAF would create the Chandler functionality
required by higher education institutions to work with campus computing
infrastructure and requirements.  Whether this would be done via a single
version of Chandler or two separate versions is still to be determined.  Our
investigation into the higher educational requirements has already led us to
improve our initial architecture design to improve robustness and
scalability in centralized and decentralized environments alike.

You can see the announcement on the OSAF
website(http://www.osafoundation.org/MellonAnnouncement_Mar-31-2003.htm)

Pieter Hartsook
Marketing Specialist
Open Software Applications Foundation

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