OSAF welcomes Mimi Yin, our most recent employee, who joins our staff as UI Designer. She will be working hard to construct an elegant and intuitive visual metaphor for Chandler’s user interface.

We are very pleased to announce that in September 2003, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the 25 university members of the Common Solutions Group (CSG) have agreed to provide OSAF a total of $2.75 million in grants. These funds will allow OSAF to extend the functionality of the Chandler software application to meet the information technology needs of higher education.

OSAF would like to welcome Stuart Parmenter our newest Software Engineer. Stuart got involved with open source at the age of 14. He created the Balsa email client and has been working on Mozilla for the last 5 years. After spending the last 4 years at Netscape, his quest for the next big thing has led him to OSAF, where he will be working on the agent framework.

Status Update #9 — 1) Official 0.2 release - September 25, 2003; 2) Help Us!-small self-contained projects; 3)Recent new/updated wiki pages of note; 5)New Staff at OSAF; 5)Chandler Ecosystem Project; 6) Visitors

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You can download the 0.2 release here: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/GettingChandler

Our 0.2 release is an architectural release, where we focus on building Chandler as a platform. The 0.2 release was triggered by the clock as opposed to any functional or feature milestone. We want to show that we are making progress at regular intervals even though we might not have the loose ends all tidied up. We’re not trying to make this release look pretty. We will be moving the focus to end-user functionality and features next year, as described in the Product Roadmap and Chandler Timeline.

The 0.2 release of Chandler is still very skeletal in functionality, with very few obvious differences to the end-user from the 0.1 release. However, there are some major changes in the underlying framework and architecture. Our framework is by no means complete, but 0.2 shows a solid start on several of our major framework areas: Data Model and Repository,Notification Framework, Agent Framework, and the Chandler Presentation and Interaction Architecture (CPIA). We have also added enhanced debugging features.

OSAF would like to welcome Heikki Toivonen who joins our staff as Development Manager. Heikki has been fascinated with structured documents since the birth of the web as we know it. He spent several years in providing solutions for large corporations struggling with document management. Lately software security has become one of his major interests. He got hooked on Open Source with Mozilla, and has been an active developer in the project since 1998. He worked for Netscape before joining OSAF.