We’re please to announce the 0.6.1 update of Chandler Server (Cosmo)!

Chandler Server is a database, server, and web UI for storing and managing personal information such as events and tasks. It implements standards such as CalDAV, WebDAV, Atom, and Atom Publishing Protocol.

Chandler Server 0.6.1 is currently available for download at: http://downloads.osafoundation.org .

This release focuses on the server side communication between Chandler Desktop and the Chandler Server. We have created a new HTTP-based synchronization protocol, Morse Code http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Projects/CosmoMorseCode, which significantly decrease the time it takes to subscribe to and synchronize collections between the desktop and server.

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

Send us feedback at:chandler-users@osafoundation.org

We look forward to hearing from you!!

-Priscilla

We’re please to announce our first experimentally usable release of Cosmo! Cosmo 0.6 is currently available for use or for download.

What’s new in Cosmo 0.6:

• Event editing on shared calendars without an account
• Better interoperability with other calendar applications ie. iCal, Sunbird, etc.
• Display of time zones on calendar events
• Notification of an updated event on a shared calendar
• New improvement to the Administrator UI
• Tons of bug fixes!

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

OSAF continues to work towards the Preview release of our products and services currently scheduled for Spring 2007. Refer to the Preview Countdown Page to keep track of our progress.

If you are already experimentally using Chandler and would like to try Cosmo, you may need to make changes to your configuration, please refer to Jared’s instructions on the general mailing list.

Please keep in mind we’re still working out the kinks in 0.6, so feel free to send us feedback. We look forward to hearing from you!!

-Cosmo Team

The Cosmo team is pleased to announce that Cosmo 0.5 is now available for download.

Cosmo 0.5 is a new feature release including:

integrated web calendar UI (formerly known as Scooby), including support for recurring events

new, higher performance storage architecture

limited support for webdav access control

improvements to the administration UI

more efficient atom feeds

dozens of bug fixes

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

We’re looking forward to hearing about how folks are using cosmo!

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!

I am delighted to announce the release of Scooby 0.2! We launched on June 22nd, 2006. Please view the demo and download the code on the Scooby homepage. Scooby will be tightly integrated with Cosmo 0.4 and packaged with the OSAF server bundle.

What’s new in Scooby 0.2

Navigation

You are now able to ‘Log out’ of Scooby instead of letting it time out. The collection name is displayed in place of the path name when you subscribe or move your collection into Scooby.

Visual Polish

There are a few visual tweaks made to create a more consistent feel with Chandler, but only where it makes sense as a web application. Similarities between Scooby and Chandler include the following: The lozenge gradient color for selected and confirmed events, the timeline displayed on the left, and ‘Noon’ time indicator to differenciate between mornings & afternoons. Unique to Scooby are stylized buttons and the Scooby logo.

Managing Events

Users may now view recurring events in Scooby. You can overlap events within the same calendar. Scooby can also display the event status of an event: Confirmed, Tentative, and FYI.

Coding Standards

The Scooby team reorganized JS files into folders resembling packages in Java and added the Dojo JavaScript framework to the project.

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.