Highlights

• Scooby has reached “zarro boogs” and code freeze and in QA for release of 0.1.
• Cosmo has 10 P1 and P2 bugs to fix before release of 0.3.
• Chandler team is at PyCon this week (or enough so that the office feels empty, anyway)

The detailed report can be found on the wiki here

OSAF is going to have a slightly larger than normal presence at Pycon this year (24-26 February 2006 in Addison, Texas near Dallas). Three members of the OSAF staff are giving presentations. For details see the blog entry OSAF at Pycon.

OSAF is going to have a slightly larger than normal presence at PyCon this year. Three members of the OSAF staff are giving presentations

1. Grant Baiilie is talking about Zanshin, our CalDAV client library.
2. Jeffrey Harris is talking about VObject, a library for working with vCalendar, iCalendar, and vCard files.
3. Brian Kirsch is talking about how to internationalize a Python application, using Chandler as an example, and touching on the use of PyICU.

We are also having a BOF on Saturday, and a sprint on Monday and Tuesday.

Please say hi if you are around!

Highlights

Chandler Design has included serious progress on Dashboard, sections, free-busy planning and more.

Cosmo 0.3 release plan firmed up: probably release March 1 or after but with more testing than ever.

Scooby 0.1 will ship in tandem with Cosmo as Scooby feature work is finishing up just now.

This report covers the period from Feb 2, 2006 to Feb 16, 2006 (two weeks).

The detailed report can be found on the wiki here

OSAF is looking for interns in the following areas:

• Software Engineer Intern - Chandler project
• Software Engineer Intern- Cosmo or Scooby project
• QA Engineer Intern
• IT Sysadmin Intern

For more information visit our employment page.

Today OSAF released Chandler 0.6.1, an update to its “experimentally usable” calendar. This release fixes a number of bugs that prevented some of our users from downloading and experimenting with the application. The fixes addressed bugs preventing certain calendars from being imported, some sharing errors, and addressing a number of items that support the developer community. A more comprehensive summary and be found in the 0.6.1 Fixed Bugs wiki page .

Today OSAF released Chandler 0.6.1, an update to its “experimentally usable” calendar. This release fixes a number of bugs that prevented some of our users from downloading and experimenting with the application. The fixes addressed bugs preventing certain calendars from being imported, some sharing errors, and addressing a number of items that support the developer community. A more comprehensive summary and be found in the 0.6.1 Fixed Bugs wiki page.

We have just moved all the OSAF IRC channels, bots, channel logging and other services from irc.osafoundation.org to irc.freenode.net

The channels available on irc.freenode.net are:

• #chandler - The Chandler project
• #cosmo - The Cosmo project
• #scooby - The Scooby project
• #osaf-notices - This is an informal channel for socializing. It is also the destination for useful output from the soup IRC bot, including realtime notifications of changes to the OSAF wikis.

Please connect to this new server from this point on. Click here for instructions on how to join the OSAF IRC chats and how to access the transcript logs from previous sessions.

We have just moved all the OSAF irc channels, bots, channel logging and other services from irc.osafoundation.org to irc.freenode.net

The channels available on irc.freenode.net are: * #chandler - The Chandler project * #cosmo - The Cosmo project * #scooby - The Scooby project * #osaf-notices - This is an informal channel for socializing. It is also the destination for useful output from the soup IRC bot, including realtime notifications of changes to the OSAF wikis.

Please connect to this new server from this point on. Click here for instructions on how to join the OSAF irc chats and how to access the transcript logs from previous sessions.

A few weeks ago, we had some sprints for the OSAF staff. These were kind of blue sky sprints and people worked on pretty much whatever they felt like (if you are looking for cool project ideas related to Chandler, there are a bunch of those there as well).

Morgen had worked up a simple XML-RPC server which allowed him to build an OS X Dashboard widget that could get information out of Chandler. That, discussions we’ve had about building a simple command line interface into Chandler, and the KGTD Quicksilver Action were the inspiration for a quick hack.

The KGTD Quicksilver action allows you to use Quicksilver’s text entry facilities to dump ideas or reminders or whatever into KGTD right from Quicksilver. It provides a quick, unobtrusive mechanism for collecting stuff that you need to get out of your head and into your Getting Things Done (GTD) system.

What I did was to do a similar thing, but instead of sending the text to KGTD, I send the text to Chandler via XML-RPC. And instead of sending just a piece of text, I implemented a very stupid command line interface to Chandler. The XML-RPC servlet and the command line processor are now checked into Chandler’s subversion repository, and the QuickSilver AppleScript is checked into my OSAF sandbox: http://svn.osafoundation.org/sandbox/twl/applescripts/ToChandler.scpt. The script ended up being very simple, because AppleScript has built in support for XML-RPC handling. In fact, the code is so short, that I’ll just include it here, too.

-- Invoke applescript with text
-- 1. Activate QuickSilver and select this script.

– 2. Tab to the next and select Process Text..
– 3. Tab to the final pane and enter the command line text


using terms from application “Quicksilver”
    on process text ThisClipping
        tell application “http://localhost:1888/xmlrpc”
            set returnValue to call xmlrpc {method name:”commandline”, parameters:ThisClipping}
        end tell
    end process text
end using terms from

This is mostly a cool developer hack at the moment, but it gives you a taste of things you could do to integrate better with the native platform, as well as demonstrating the power of having some server functionality built into a desktop application. Of course, in an ideal OS X world, we’d have an AppleScript dictionary for Chandler and just use AppleScript (instead of XML-RPC) to do all this. But that’s probably a topic for another post.