As part of our 1.0 release, we’ll be hosting special live chat sessions on IRC for developers and users interested in contributing to the project. If you happen to be in the San Francisco Bay Area, you’re also invited to bring your laptop and join us in person.

User Support Hour

When: August 4, 2-3PM PDT
Where: IRC
Channel: #chandler

To kick things off, we’ll be holding User Support Hour. Please join us if you’d like to share or learn how others use Chandler or simply want help getting set up or troubleshooting a problem.

Then stick around and provide input for developers:

Scratch Your Chandler Itch

When: August 4, 3-5PM PDT
Where: IRC
Channel: #chandler

If you know a little Python, and would like focused help from the Chandler development team, we have a few projects we think might make good starter projects both for introducing Chandler’s code to new developers and addressing real pain points in the product. Please feel free to add your own!

• More alarm snooze options
• Shortcut from the reminder pop-up to the item details
• More commands for the Quick Entry field (e.g. for filing items, etc)
• Download flagged emails (IMAP)
• Customize App Bar: Add Tasks, define a “Notes-only” area, etc)
• Print Triage List

See full list.

If you want to participate, start by checking out Chandler using SVN

Hack On Chandler Server

When: August 5, 3-5PM PDT
Where: IRC
Channel: #cosmo

We’ll finish off our community sessions with a session aimed at people conversant with Java or Javascript who’d like to improve the server.

• Port the iGoogle quick entry widget to iPhone, OSX Dashboard, Vista Sidebar, Yahoo Konfabulator
• UI for setting up Notifications (via email)
• UI for importing .ics calendar files through web UI

If you want to participate, start by checking out Chandler Server using SVN.

RSVP

We’d like to get a head count of who might participate. If you’re planning on attending, or if you’d like to participate but can’t make those times, please let us know by this Friday.

Thanks,
The Chandler Team