We are happy to announce the OSAF Server Bundle, a combination of Cosmo (the sharing server for Chandler) and Scooby (a web application for viewing calendars on the Cosmo server). For a lot more information about these products, download links for the code, and a demo of Scooby 0.1, please visit their websites. http://cosmo.osafoundation.org and http://scooby.osafoundation.org.

OSAF is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build the backend server components for our sharing server. If you have a passion for internet technology and experience building large, scalable systems, we’d like to talk with you.

OSAF is also seeking a Web UI Developer to join our team building a world class Web Application for calendar access and sharing. An ideal candidate would have deep skills in JavaScript development skills with a background in Software Engineering. We’re looking for someone with a passion for building great web applications!

You can see details for these and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

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.

Today is the first day for students to register for projects via Google’s Summer of Code program. We have a number of ideas for student projects, so please check out our list. If you are interested in something that isn’t listed, you can send a note to any of the OSAF mailing lists.

Highlights

• Chandler: PyLucene,PyICU no longer use SWIG. Free/Busy, Scheduling are code complete for 0.7alpha2

• Cosmo: Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish.

• Scooby: Work on some of the Scooby 0.2 features is already started. Scooby 0.2 officially kicks off on 4/11/06.

• Community/IT : Wiki updated to new code base. More development work on the Scooby and Cosmo landing page sites in preparation for the Scooby 0.1 and Cosmo 0.3 bundle launch.

The detailed report can be found on the wiki here

Highlights

• Chandler: 0.7 Timezone related changes. Sending and recieving stamped events is now operational. Timezones, hours in a day are now available as menu preferences.

• Cosmo: Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish (We are targeting the migration tool for Wed of this week)
• Scooby : Working on Scooby 0.2 planning. We now have the first pass for an in/out list and rough estimates for difficulty.

Highlights

• Chandler: DetailedAlpha2Plan. First pass at background syncing.

• Cosmo: Cosmo 0.2.8 was released and announced. It is available for download now.

• Scooby: Lots of work on the 0.2 release planning. We have rough estimates for each feature. As a team, we’re digging to the next level of detail to determine more detailed scope and recommendations for in/out for 0.2.

The detailed report can be found on the wiki here

Highlights

• Chandler: Focusing on 0.7alpha2 (27 April)
• Cosmo: New release this week: Cosmo 0.2.8
• Scooby: Very close to Scooby 0.1 release

The detailed report can be found on the wiki here

Highlights

• OSAF: Self Assigned Project Program launched; Mimi presented at etech
• Chandler: Dashboard and Scheduling specs available
• Cosmo: Down to three bugs to fix for 0.3 release.
• Scooby: Doing non-release work (documentation, landing page) for 0.1 release.

To support the requirements of Chandler, the repository had to implement a richer set of notifications than what was originally offered with attribute monitors.

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