Numerous activities has been keeping me busy on the Scooby project. The most recent news is the approval of the merge with the Cosmo project. Along with the merge, we’re currently referring to the Scooby project as Cosmo. Please be patient as we’re currently in the middle of moving all the Scooby content and documentation over to Cosmo for the next release. In addition, we are hosting a mini-Cosmo sprint/pow wow sessions next week, from August 15th-18th. Keep a watchful eye as the next release of Cosmo will be the most exciting one yet!

As of version 0.7 alpha3 of Chandler, OSAF is changing the license for the Chandler desktop product to the Apache 2.0 License (our Cosmo and Scooby codebases are already Apache Licensed). Previous versions of Chandler were licensed under the GNU GPL because we thought that we would pursue a MySQL style dual licensing scheme as part of the sustainability plans for the Foundation. We no longer plan to pursue this kind of scheme in order to acheive our sustainability goals, and we want to reduce the number of open source licenses in use at OSAF.
Those interested in the complete discussion on this topic can look at the archives of the OSAF ‘general’ mailing list: <http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/general/2006-May/000248.html>

We have just released our latest milestone 0.7alpha3, which builds further on the calendar we released in 0.6 by providing a sneak preview of some of the new features we are implementing for 0.7. With the new features and performance improvements we suggest that 0.6 and 0.6.1 users switch to using the calendar with 0.7alpha3. For further details go to http://chandler.osafoundation.org/newinalpha3.php.

You can download the latest milestone at… http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/milestones/

For data migration instructions see… http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChandlerZeroSevenAlpha3DataMigration

We have just released our latest milestone, Chandler 0.7alpha3, which you can download at http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/milestones/.

Highlights for this release are - background sync, Intel Mac support and a handfull of performance improvements. We suggest that 0.6 and 0.6.1 users switch to using the calendar with 0.7alpha3. For further details on all the new features go to http://chandler.osafoundation.org/newinalpha3.php

As with our previous milestone, you will need to migrate your data from the previous release. http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChandlerZeroSevenAlpha3DataMigration