The Chandler Project Blog

We are pleased that OSAF will again be participating in Google’s Summer of Code program in 2007. We had a very positive experience with Summer of Code last year, and hope that we’ll have an even better experience this year.

This year, we have project opportunities on the Chandler, Cosmo, and the Windmill projects. You can see our list of projects here, or propose your own project related to Chandler, Cosmo, or Windmill.

If you are a student and interested in applying to the Google Summer of Code program, you can use Google’s web application to apply.

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

We’re getting close to our “Preview” release of Chandler and Cosmo. (We’re shooting for April 2007). The Preview release will be the first release that is polished enough for people outside of OSAF to try out and use. We’re very interested in feedback from daily usage to guide us as we move towards a final 1.0 release.

The desktop application provides users with an integrated Dashboard for managing tasks, notes, communications and events and a Calendar for scheduling. Chandler users can share with other desktop users and on the web using our free service (built on our Cosmo server). Collaborators can view or edit calendars and task lists. For more details about what we’ve been up to, check out our recent blog post.

We’ve created a new mailing list for users. A few people are trying out the applications even before Preview, and are giving us great feedback on bugs and problems. We are also using the list to answer questions and take suggestions for future features. We hope to see you on the list!

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 .

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

Randy joins OSAF as a Server Devleoper on the Cosmo team after working on Cosmo while at his previous employer. Read more about Randy on our people page.

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!

As of version 0.7 alpha3 of Chandler, OSAF is changing the license for the Chandler desktop product to the Apache 2.0 License (our Cosmo and Scooby codebases are already Apache Licensed). Previous versions of Chandler were licensed under the GNU GPL because we thought that we would pursue a MySQL style dual licensing scheme as part of the sustainability plans for the Foundation. We no longer plan to pursue this kind of scheme in order to acheive our sustainability goals, and we want to reduce the number of open source licenses in use at OSAF.
Those interested in the complete discussion on this topic can look at the archives of the OSAF ‘general’ mailing list: <http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/general/2006-May/000248.html>

Welcome to our Google Summer of Code students:

We’re looking forward to working with you. Thank you to all the students who applied — the application process was very competitive this year.

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.

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.