For those interested in a following our progress on Chandler 0.7, we released our latest milestone, Alpha2 on May 26th. You can download this at http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/milestones/

This milestone features some enhancements to the calendar and a number of bugs fixes reported from our users. We also have the beginnings of some lightweight scheduling workflows and have started to build out other areas of the app such as the table view. For all the details and known bugs go to http://chandler.osafoundation.org/newinalpha2.php

We have already started working on our next milestone Alpha3 which focuses on peformance. For more details about Alpha3 and future milestones, refer to our 0.7 planning page at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ZeroPointSevenPlanning

Cosmo 0.3 is (finally) available for download as part of the new OSAF integrated server bundle, which also includes Scooby 0.1.

0.3 is a new feature release including:

• A web-based tool for browsing the contents of the Cosmo repository
• Atom-based calendar feeds
• Support for the CalDAV calendar-query and multiget reports

Find download information, installation instructions and release notes at http://cosmo.osafoundation.org.

I’m please to announce the arrival Scooby 0.1 bundled together with Cosmo 0.3. We launched on May 24th 2006. Scooby is first step to bringing the Chandler and Cosmo system to the web. This is a developer’s release and is not intended for the end user. Scooby 0.1 is intended to be a web 2.0 interface to the calendaring part of Chandler.

For more information about Scooby 0.1 please download the code and view a demo on the Scooby homepage. For more information about Cosmo 0.3 server go to the Cosmo homepage.

Welcome to our Google Summer of Code students:

We’re looking forward to working with you. Thank you to all the students who applied — the application process was very competitive this year.

We are happy to announce the OSAF Server Bundle, a combination of Cosmo (the sharing server for Chandler) and Scooby (a web application for viewing calendars on the Cosmo server). For a lot more information about these products, download links for the code, and a demo of Scooby 0.1, please visit their websites. http://cosmo.osafoundation.org and http://scooby.osafoundation.org.

OSAF is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build the backend server components for our sharing server (Cosmo). If you have a passion for internet technology and experience building large, scalable systems, we’d like to talk with you.

We are also seeking a Web UI Developer to join our team building a world class Web Application for calendar access and sharing (Scooby). An ideal candidate would have deep skills in JavaScript development skills with a background in Software Engineering. We’re looking for someone with a passion for building great web applications!

You can see details for these and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

OSAF is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build the backend server components for our sharing server. If you have a passion for internet technology and experience building large, scalable systems, we’d like to talk with you.

OSAF is also seeking a Web UI Developer to join our team building a world class Web Application for calendar access and sharing. An ideal candidate would have deep skills in JavaScript development skills with a background in Software Engineering. We’re looking for someone with a passion for building great web applications!

You can see details for these and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

Students, if you want to work on an OSAF mentored project, and get paid for your efforts by Google — submit your application here.

The Summer of Code is a program in which Google provides student developers with a $4,500 stipend to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software and technology related groups to identify and fund up to several hundred projects over a 3 month time span. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place during the summer of 2005, brought together 400 students and 40 mentor organizations from 49 countries.

The program’s goals are to inspire young developers and provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer, and to support existing open source projects and organizations.

For more information about this program, see the Google Summer of Code 2006 web page.

Today is the first day for students to register for projects via Google’s Summer of Code program. We have a number of ideas for student projects, so please check out our list. If you are interested in something that isn’t listed, you can send a note to any of the OSAF mailing lists.