[imp] "big three" webmail providers courting campus

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Kevin Konowalec <webadmin at ualberta.ca>:

>> On the other hand it's gotten a lot better at playing nicely with
>> things like iTip, as has IMP. So maybe you could clarify what you'd
>> need? Do you really need to take the administrators off of exchange in
>> order to give the students Kronolith?
>
> No... what we'd need is for students to be able to view calendars  
> and book meetings and whatnot between Kronolith and Exchange.   
> Essentially we have a bunch of departments/faculties as well as  
> administration that refuse to give up exchange (for the usual  
> ridiculous reasons).  The rest of the faculties/departments and the  
> student body could use Kronolith.  Ideally there would be a way to  
> talk between the two in some meaningful way.  That's not to say we  
> wouldn't deploy Kronolith for the students anyway... but things  
> would go a lot smoother for us if we could include exchange in the  
> mix somehow.

Well, if you can get exchange to publish its free/busy information  
somewhere useful, then you can do the scheduling stuff from Kronolith  
via email.

-chuck