i’m happy to announce that Cosmo 0.2 is ready for download.

0.2 adds many usability and interoperability features, including:

• Calendar publication and subscription using CalDAV and WebDAV
• Ticket-based access control
• A web interface for end users to sign up for and manage their own accounts
• A sexy new look for the entire web interface
• The Cosmo Management Protocol (CMP), an HTTP-based protocol for management tasks

with Cosmo 0.2, people can use Chandler 0.6, Apple iCal, and CalDAV clients such as Mozilla Sunbird interchangeably to read and write shared calendars.

the Cosmo home page is http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoHome. you can find download instructions and links to documentation there. the docs have been separated according to user, so you’ll find individual sections for end users, server administrators, and developers.

i’ll be completing and polishing the 0.2 documentation for the remainder of this week (including the end user guide and the CalDAV and CMP reference docs).

0.3 planning will be kicking off next week during the server team summit. in 0.3 you can look forward to CalDAV reports and user quotas, among other things. more info is forthcoming in the next few weeks.

i’m looking forward to your comments. please let us know what you think. all questions and ideas are welcome.

thanks!

OSAF would like to welcome Bobby Rullo, who joins OSAF as Server Developer working on the Cosmo/Scooby project. Bobby comes to OSAF from New York where he has worked for the last eight years developing software in diverse areas such as the apparel, marketing and textile industries.

You can see more information on Bobby and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

as Cosmo matures, we find ourselves in need of some professional tech writing. there’s all sorts of doc to be written:

• web interface copy
• web interface help system
• end user guide
• administrator guide
• project web site
• developer resources web site

if you are at all interested in what we are doing with Cosmo and are a trained technical writer, please consider donating some of your time. help us bring standards-based calendaring to the common man.