OSAF is looking for a hands-on software development manager to provide senior engineering management and leadership for Cosmo, an open source standards-based sharing/calendaring server, and Scooby, a calendar Web application. You will help design, implement, test, debug and tune the code. You will champion high quality code and professional development habits and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate development work on Cosmo and Scooby, including architecture plans, time estimates, code reviews and bug fixing.
• Design and implement scalable and robust architecture.
• Review work done by others and contribute to the overall high quality of the code

Requirements:

• Ideally: proven track record shipping high quality server software, experience with open standard protocols a plus.
• Proven experience managing a development team
• Expert knowledge in Object Oriented Design, agile development procedures, possibly SCRUM or XP
• Expert knowledge in Java, SQL and Web technology.
• Experience working with Apache projects (Tomcat, Jackrabbit, Derby) and other open source server components (struts, spring, hibernate) a plus.
• Experience with AJAX architecture/concepts a plus.
• Experience with or interest in calendaring standards (iCalendar, CalDAV) a plus.
• Familiarity with or interest in Personal Information Management applications: email, calendar, tasks, notes, etc…
• Interested by open standards and experience contributing to open source projects a plus
• Solid organizational skills
• Enjoys working in uncharted waters, highly motivated self starter
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Willingness to work in a transparent and open way

Cosmo 0.2.5 is ready for download at http://downloads.osafoundation.org/cosmo/releases/0.2/.

0.2.5 fixes a major memory leak and a few other bugs, and it includes a few enhancements:

• user account’s email address and first and last names may now be up to 128 bytes long
• new CMP operations that allow an authenticated user to read and write his own account info
• all CMP PUT requests return ETags
• all CMP PUT requests return specific status codes for “email in use” and “username in use” errors

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoHome.

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.

Since people new to the project may be unaware, I thought I would write up a page describing the current state of Chandler’s embedded webserver, along with how to add your own servlets and set up passwords. Please see the ChandlerWebServer Wiki page for details.

OSAF today released, an early, but “experimentally usable” version of its open source application, Chandler. Chandler is a Personal Information Management (PIM) client application with innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support.

There is a wealth of information about the application and this particular release at the Chandler 0.6 Home Page

A bit of a change for status overviews: we experimented with collaboratively creating a status Wiki page. Some are on vacation right now so not all sections are filled in but that’s OK, I am already getting the sense that this can work. Rather than re-post here I’ll simply link to the Wiki page.

Dec 20 OSAF Status Overview

OSAF today released, an early, but “experimentally usable” version of it’s open source application, Chandler. Chandler is a Personal Information Management (PIM) client application with innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support.

There is a wealth of information about the application and this particular release at the Chandler 0.6 Home Page

Cosmo 0.2.4 is ready for download at http://downloads.osafoundation.org/cosmo/releases/0.2/.

0.2.4 is a bugfix release focusing on stability and scalability. It also includes a few new operations-oriented features:

• control over startup features via environment variables
• a simple server status page
• a CMP operation allowing anonymous users to sign up for Cosmo accounts without presenting admin credentials

As of 0.2.4, Cosmo now requires Java 5.0 (sometimes called 1.5).

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoHome.

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.

OSAF welcomes Reid Ellis to the team. He will be working on the Chandler project as an Application Developer. He had previously worked on medium- and large-scale applications, such as Roxio’s “PhotoSuite” and Alias’ “Maya” and “Sketchbook Pro”, as well as open source projects like BZFlag and iJournal.

Read more about Reid and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

Apologies for the late and less-structured status overview this week. I’ll confine this to what people sent me or posted on the Wiki for recent status.

• Operations meeting minutes
• Engineering Meeting minutes (milestone and release planning)
• Design meeting notes
• QA Status
• Applications Team meeting minutes
• Services and Dev Platform meeting minutes
• Cosmo: “0.2.4 is *just* about ready to tag and roll. there’s only remaining issue: a KEI internal project needs a signup operation added to CMP. i expect that to be done and 0.2.4 to be handed off to QA by the end of day monday.” — BCM
• Scooby:

From Bobby Rullo, Scooby progress:

• removal of events is now asychronous
• localization framework in place
• button drawing client side library started
• client keeps server side session alive by “pinging” every time the user does something on the client side
• Event detail area moved to the bottom of the page
• Resizable area for the all day events started - the same resizable widget will be used for the sidebar later.
• Started work on “all day” support
• Started work on caldav4j

Scooby plans

• finish all day support, as well as support for different event types (all day, any time, point in time)
• drop LocalScoobyService, add initial support for Cosmo instead

IT Status from Jared

• Progress: Full NMAP reconciliation complete. LPFI community technology selected. VPN plan complete, prototype proceeding. KEI mailman instance created. OSAF QA intern set-up.
• Plans: Rework cosmo-demo for new Java 1.5 requirements. Build new colo box for LPFI web site hosting. Close KEI sysadmin hire by mid-December. Review bandwidth shaping progress.
• Personnel: Hire KEI sysadmin and OSAF IT Intern. Jared and Chris have some late December vacation plans.