We now refer to Bedework as “a calendar system for higher education” rather than as an “institutional calendar,” so it no longer sounds like it is a product for correctional facilities.
Emphasis on higher ed does not preclude other uses for Bedework, but it does mean we are cognizant of the needs and constraints of higher ed. Bedework has no licensing fees or other costs, no restrictions on usage or deployment, distributed, fine-grained administration, standards compliance, a public events component, JSR168 portal “friendliness,” and flexible authentication and access control, and the working assumption that Bedework be one of many different calendaring systems on campus.
On the other hand, there are other higher ed needs that Bedework does not yet easily accommodate, such as displaying building and facilities hours, or scheduling faculty office hours. Serge Goldstein at Princeton has written a very sophisticated office hours application that helped me appreciate the complexities and intricacies of addressing this issue.
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