OSAF would like to welcome Aparna Kadakia who joins our team as QA manager. Aparna was fascinated by all the open source development projects while working at Netscape where she started out as a QA lead. She later became QA manager at other Silicon Valley ventures defining QA processes for large scale enterprise projects. OSAF is her first contribution to the open source world. She will be doing testing for the Chandler project and defining QA processes for enhancing the overall quality of the release.

We invite you to take a look at the new OSAF project at http://pylucene.osafoundation.org

PyLucene is a Python wrapper around the Lucene indexing and search engine. It was developed by Andi Vajda at OSAF for use in Chandler. PyLucene is a way of letting Python use Lucene to do full text indexing.

There has been a lot of interest and feedback from the Python developer community that it would be nice to be able to get this functionality without having to deal with all of the Chandler source tree. This interest lead naturally to the idea of a separate project.

During the weekly OSAF IRC Office Hour on June 23, 2003 there was a discussion with Andi, the original developer of PyLucene about its origins, scope, and current status. You can review this conversation on the IRC log (from 11:00 to noon).

We have opened a search for someone to join the OSAF team as Program Manager. Please see OSAF’s Employment page for details on this and the other positions we have open.

OSAF would like to welcome Donn Denman who joins our team as a software design engineer focusing on the Chandler Presentation and Interaction Architecture (CPIA). Donn was a member of the original Macintosh development team during his 14 years at Apple. After some years working on settop boxes for the 3DO company and PowerTV he has decided to come back to the Desktop world by joining OSAF to work on the CPIA portion of Chandler.

Lisa Dusseault, OSAF Development Manager and Standards Architect, has been appointed co-chair of the IMAPEXT WG. The IETF IMAP extensions Working Group is specifying extensions to the IMAP4 standard for sorting, threading, and viewing e-mail messages, as well as Access Control Lists. These extensions would add needed functionality to IMAP-based e-mail systems in a standard way that could be universally adopted by all e-mail vendors. The extensions could one day affect the way Chandler downloads and synchronizes mail from IMAP servers

OSAF would like to welcome Brian Kirsch, our ‘go to’ person for making email happen in Chandler. This includes everything from an architectural role in deciding how to integrate email to evaluating existing code for communicating with e-mail servers, making fix/build decisions, and hooking these to the networking and data repository frameworks. He is very excited to be dedicating himself fulltime to open source as the Email Guy for Chandler.

OSAF would like to welcome David Surovell our new GUI Frameworks Software Engineer. David is a veteran software developer, having (co-) designed, developed and/or maintained several software products, services and tools for companies large and small. He considers himself platform-neutral and has written books and articles on graphics software development techniques. He joins OSAF eager to contribute to his first major open source development project.

We have revised and reposted the position of Quality Assurance Engineer. Please see the Employment page on the OSAF website for details for all the positions we have open.

OSAF would like to welcome Lisa Dusseault our new Development Manager and Standards Architect. Lisa comes to OSAF from Xythos, an Internet startup where she was development manager for four years. She has also been an IETF contributor on various Internet applications protocols for eight years, and will continue to do this kind of work at OSAF. She currently chairs the XMPP (Jabber) and WebDAV Working Groups.

We are pleased to announce Chandler 0.3! Our architecture is finally stable enough to start developing end-user features.

Release 0.3 targets developers who want an early preview into our architecture as we are developing it. With this release we now can begin to encourage open source developers to work with the OSAF core development team, as in the upcoming PyCon Sprint.

New in Release 0.3 The two biggest architecture advancements in this release are the Repository and the Chandler Presentation and Interaction Architecture (CPIA). In 0.3, our Repository is much more robust and scalable, and now implements a transaction and threading model. This release also marks the debut of CPIA, which is a UI layer in our architecture that is uniquely adapted for item-centric applications based on our Repository. Not only does it abstract away implementation-specific UI widgets, but CPIA elements have direct access to our Repository via data-driven queries.

You can find out more about the 0.3 release at: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/ChandlerZeroPointThreeReadme

You can download the 0.3 release for Linux, MacOS, and Windows from: http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/releases/0.3/