Bryn Mawr College

Information Services recently completed an intensive review of our current e-mail and calendaring (i.e. Meeting Maker) services, partly in response to community requests. In late December we received the approval and support of the senior administration and Board of Trustees of the College to begin a major upgrade to these systems.

We are now developing an implementation plan to migrate the community from our current wide range of email and calendar programs to a single integrated email and calendaring service, with full-featured web-based email/calendar, campus address book accessible from anywhere, to-do lists, and collaborative workspaces. The new system will have a powerful server “back end” with much more mail storage space than the current system and continued security and privacy for the College’s data. [Here's a sample screenshot of the new web email/calendar.]

Deployment will begin for most of us in late spring. At that time our email and Meeting Maker calendar information, including stored older data, will begin to migrate into the new system.

For more information about the decision-making process and details about the software selected, we invite you to read the Proposal submitted to the President’s Cabinet. We will host a demonstration session at Coffee Hour on March 21. Feel free to bring your questions then, or email them to either of us. We will also discuss the new system at the Administrative Office Heads meeting on February 20, and the Faculty Meeting on March 5. We will post this announcement and responses to the most frequently asked questions to http://is.blogs.brynmawr.edu.

Heartfelt thanks to all of you in the community who helped us evaluate and test the candidate systems. We were gratified to find a strong community-wide consensus in favor of a system which provided support for both Macintosh and PC users, while providing sustainability and strong privacy protections for our email and calendar communications.

Sincerely,

Mark Colvson, Education and Outreach Project Mgr
Janet Scannell, Director of Computing Services

and the Information Services Infrastructure Review Management Team
David Bertagni, Head of Networking and Telecommunications
Berry Chamness, Messaging Project Manager
Dave Consiglio, Desktop Management Project Mgr
Amy Pearlman, Head of Support Services
David Schlich, Head of Systems
Scott Silverman, File, Print, Active Directory and Storage Project Mgr
David Sturgis, Head of Administrative Information Systems

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