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.

John joins OSAF as a Development Manager on the Cosmo and Scooby projects. John joins OSAF after several years at Shutterfly. Read more about John on our people page.

Mimi Yin is the interaction designer for OSAF where she designs the visual interface for Chandler. In March she will be participating in three different forums talking about issues that drive user interface design for Chandler.

9 March 2006, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego., Personal Information Architecture and Chandler.

14 March 2006, The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI 7:30-9:30 pm. Getting Things Done: Technology and Practice.

27 March 2006, 7th Information Architecture Summit, Vancouver, BC., Tagging and Beyond: Personal, Social and Collaborative Information Architecture

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 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.

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.

She is joining the design and program management team and will be working on projects that cover all the OSAF products (Chandler, Scooby and Cosmo). Read more about Priscilla on the People page.

Jeffrey has transitioned to a full time Software Development Engineer with OSAF. He had been contracting with us since November of 2003 and in September became a full time employee. Read more about Jeffrey on our People page.

Mikeal Rogers joins OSAF as a QA Engineer on the Chandler project. Mikeal joins OSAF from a long history at RealNetworks. Read more about Mikeal on our people page.