The personnel involved in the Calendar Tool project are organized into the following groups and subgroups:
End users are those who use the Calendar Tool for its intended purpose. Registered end users have calendars that are stored in a Calendar Tool multi- user database, which is used for group scheduling purposes. Group leaders are designated registered users who may perform group scheduling operations which affect other users' calendars. Master system administrators perform overall system administration functions, including user and group leader registration. Finally, anyone can use the Calendar Tool as an unregistered user for the management of a strictly individual calendar.
The primary customer is Gene Fisher. He is customer representative for his faculty and staff colleagues in the Computer Science department at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In this representative capacity, Fisher will consult with other potential customers to gather requirements from them, and integrate their requirements with his own.
The primary system developer is also Gene Fisher. His development activities are all those of the software development process, from requirements analysis through product implementation and deployment. He will also conduct the ongoing process activities of testing, configuration, documentation, and project management.
Fisher's development efforts are based on the work of a number of software engineering students who have used the Calendar Tool as a class project in software engineering courses. Students whose work has been particularly helpful are Larry Bolef, Brent Smolinski, Rick Myers, Brandon Wallace, and Oliver Wallace.
As noted above, the Calendar Tool is intended to serve as an example for use in software engineering courses. The students who use the Calendar Tool for this purpose focus on the artifacts of its development rather than its use as a functioning tool.
The Calendar Tool is available as public domain software for use by outside
parties. The project directory is located at
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~gfisher/projects/calendar.