A little info on NCSU's plans for GroupWise migration and student services, since there seems to be some confusion here:
NCSU's Oracle Calendar services (the old Corporate Time/Netscape calendar system) are being EOL'ed at the end of June 2009. This impacts mostly faculty/staff. Users of the Oracle Calendar service are being given the option to migrate their calendar (and email) to GroupWise, or go their own way. The migration is scheduled for next week, 6/5/2009.
Following a campus study that completed work this spring, NCSU OIT is hoping to transition student email from our Cyrus IMAP services to Google's hosted email/calendar system this fall; this depends on successful contract negotiations, which are continuing, AFAIK.
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Jim Tuttle <jim_tuttle@ncsu.[redacted]>
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To:
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<lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]>
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5/30/2009 8:13 AM
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Re: LUG: Groupwise
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I think the idea originally was that this would roll out to all
students, as well, so that instructors and students would be able to
place meetings on each other's calendars. I hear that may not happen or
may be delayed, possibly due to difficulties scaling Groupwise up to the
number of users. I'm not involved in any of this so I may not be
accurately informed.
Jim
Alexander Ray wrote:
> Are we (read: ncsu) migrating to Groupwise? thats news to me. I've not
> run into it in a course yet.
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> The faculty (even across a single dept) can be so scattered about
> calendaring and email, students basically have to constantly check all
> of these sources:
> Webmail (just email)
> WebCT/Blackboard/Vista (which has its own chat, email, and calendaring)
> WebAssign (which also has its own messaging and calendar)
> Moodle (same)
> other misc. services teachers decide to use for class (google calendar etc.)
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> As for Thunderbird, the only shortcoming I've run into is trying to
> run it on several different computers out of the same (network) home
> directory. Things get messy, and it loses its mind. There is a
> workaround, just know it's dangerous. (And if one of the instances
> goes down in flames it can and will probably take the rest with it).
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> ~Alex
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> (Basically you just nuke the lock file...)
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> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Jim Tuttle <jim_tuttle@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>> With the impending migration to Groupwise for calendaring and email, I
>> wonder if any of you might have thoughts regarding Groupwise-compatible
>> clients. I've configured and played a little with Evolution and have
>> installed the Groupwise client, but both are lacking some functionality.
>> I've been told that Thunderbird can interact with the calendar, too,
>> using the Lightning plugin.
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>> Any thoughts?
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>> Jim
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>> Jim Tuttle
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>> Digital Library Initiatives
>> NCSU Libraries
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Jim Tuttle
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Digital Library Initiatives
NCSU Libraries
XXX.513.0651