Not only is Chandler a client, it’s also a server!

By enabling Chandler’s built-in webserver (provided by Twisted), you can access a few useful included mini web applications called “servlets”. There are two ways to turn on the webserver: either pass the –webserver command line argument, or set the CHANDLERWEBSERVER environment variable to 1 (the number one) before launching Chandler. Once you have done either of those, point your web browser at http://localhost:1888/ where you will see a list of servlets: an RSS reader, a repository browsing utility, and a simple photo album.

To add RSS feeds to Chandler, you may add them through the UI via the File > New Item > New ZaoBao Channel menu, or create a file named inbound.txt in your profile directory and put a list of RSS URLs in there, one per line. Re-run Chandler and it will subscribe to those URLs.

The location of your profile directory depends on the platform:

Linux: ~/.chandler OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Open Source Applications Foundation/Chandler Windows: C:\Documents and Settings[Username]\Application Data\Open Source Applications Foundation\Chandler

We are pleased to announce Chandler 0.5. This release of Chandler focuses on building out some of the core calendaring functionality for supporting basic individual and collaborative calendaring tasks.

In 0.5, you should be able to: * Create, edit and delete calendar events. * Navigate around the calendar in the near and distant future through the calendar summary and mini-calendar views. * Review past and upcoming events in daily and weekly granularity. * Collaborate on a shared individual calendar, allowing multiple authors to read, create and edit events on the shared calendar. * Experimentally import/export iCalendar files.

In addition, the 0.5 Release provides: * Initial support for extending chandler: early adopters can experiment with building form based parcels. * Improvements in performance and reliability. * Email attachment infrastructure. * New improved sharing architecture. * Incremental visual improvements.

You can download the release for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, at: http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/releases/0.5/

For more information, see the Chandler 0.5 Read Me document http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ChandlerZeroPointFiveReadme

We pleased to announce the release of Chandler 0.4! The high-level goal of the 0.4 release is to be “experimentally usable” for a few key end-user tasks.

In 0.4, you can: — Create, edit, and view PIM Items: Email, Calendar Events, Task, and Notes. — Add or change the Task, Email, or Event properties of any PIM item, in a process we call “stamping”. — Share collections of items (including calendars) via a WebDAV server. — Perform very basic email and calendar operations (e.g. sending and receiving email, or creating and modifying calendar events).

In addition, the 0.4 Release provides: — Sending and receiving of mail over a TLS/SSL connection (a fully secure TLS transport is not implemented yet) — A basic UI landscape: Sidebar, Tabs, Summary & Detail views

You can download the release for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, at: http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/releases/0.4/

For more information you can see the Chandler 0.4 Read Me document.

There is also a Guided Tour document that walks you through some of the new features in 0.4 like stamping and sharing.

Enjoy!

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/

Topics for this release — 1) Chandler Release 0.2 Post-Mortem; 2) Chandler Capplet (Chandler Applet) Component progress - E-mail, Calendar; 3) Chandler Framework Component progress - CPIA, Agents, Parcel, Data Model; 4) Chandler Meta Issue Components progress - UI Design, Build Issues, Tools, Ecosystem; 4) OSAF is awarded grants of $2.75 million for Higher Education version of Chandler; 5) New staff at OSAF; 6) Visitors; 7) OSAF in the news - magazine articles and publics events where OSAF was featured.

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Status Update #9 — 1) Official 0.2 release - September 25, 2003; 2) Help Us!-small self-contained projects; 3)Recent new/updated wiki pages of note; 5)New Staff at OSAF; 5)Chandler Ecosystem Project; 6) Visitors

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You can download the 0.2 release here: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/GettingChandler

Our 0.2 release is an architectural release, where we focus on building Chandler as a platform. The 0.2 release was triggered by the clock as opposed to any functional or feature milestone. We want to show that we are making progress at regular intervals even though we might not have the loose ends all tidied up. We’re not trying to make this release look pretty. We will be moving the focus to end-user functionality and features next year, as described in the Product Roadmap and Chandler Timeline.

The 0.2 release of Chandler is still very skeletal in functionality, with very few obvious differences to the end-user from the 0.1 release. However, there are some major changes in the underlying framework and architecture. Our framework is by no means complete, but 0.2 shows a solid start on several of our major framework areas: Data Model and Repository,Notification Framework, Agent Framework, and the Chandler Presentation and Interaction Architecture (CPIA). We have also added enhanced debugging features.

I. O’Reilly Open Source Conference recap; II. OSAF Moves Offices; III. Mozilla Foundation launch; IV. Chandler Design and Development * 1. The current 0.2 plan * 2. Notification manager code has been checked in * 3. Data Model. Recent meeting notes can be found here: * 4. Recent repository work: * 5. Document Architecture design continues. * 6 I don’t know how to categorize a set of work Jed has done, but here’s a description: MrMenus?, URL box - Bug#499, dialog.Destroy() - Bug#789, Generate 25 contacts, - Bug#806 , About pages , Splash screen * 7. Robin has been merging wxPython changes on the 2.4 branch over to the 2.5 branch. * 8. Chandler build and installation. Chandler now supports loading parcels from an external directory in addition to the default “internal” parcels directory. Morgen’s description can be found at ParcelLoading :

Status Update Number 7 — June 25 2003

1) Design work, 2) Competitive Anaylsis, 3) 0.2 scheduling, 4) Project pages, 5) Email, 6) Implementation, 7 Hiring.

Status Update #6 — June 5, 2003 1) 0.2 Planning, 2) Bi-weekly “milestone” releases, 3) Data Model, 4) RSS feeds for OSAF, 5) Community Plan, 6) Hiring, 7) O’Reilly Open Source Conference.