OSAF, a unique organization dedicated to the creation and widespread adoption of open source application software, is looking for a creative Web-savvy designer to contribute a consistent, professional look-and-feel and usable interactions to a WebUI for calendar access and sharing. The role necessarily involves graphic design and HTML/CSS implementation, but also includes scope for growth into product planning and/or project management.

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

OSAF has four interns on board this summer, and three of them are here already. Here’s a bit of information about each. In the order they started:

Anthony De Franco is working with Aparna Kadakia on QA, including performance tests, regression and automated integration tests. He’s also writing a parcel to view and browse bugs from a Bugzilla database through the Chandler interface. We hooked up with Anthony through LPFI’s IDEAL scholar program. When not at OSAF, Anthony is at UC Berkeley doing Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In his spare time he plays badminton.

Arel Cordero is working with David Surovell on specialized wxWidgets objects. Also a UC Berkeley student, Arel has combined his major in music (he plays violin) with interests and study in security, GUI design (particularly as it relates to security), and AI. Also, check out the credits on this indy group’s album.

Brendan O’Connor is working with Alec Flett on Chandler’s calendar GUI. For the past two years he’s been a Stanford student and working on an open source research project called Deme. Next year he begins the Master’s program in Symbolic Systems , with a focus in cognitive and social science.

Olivier Giroussens hasn’t arrived yet, but when he does in early July, he’ll be working on QA. Olivier studies in France at the Institut National des Télécommunications and previously did a M.S. in Computer Science at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Practicing a different ball/net sport from Anthony, Olivier does a lot of volleyball.

In order to handle the Scooby and Cosmo projects, as well as a more natural home for some Chandler-related projects, I’ve been gathering input on how to organize our Wiki content, and made a proposal.

Comments can be added to the proposal Wiki page itself.

OSAF has set up a group blog. It’s intended to be a good place to keep up with project developments without having to make a huge investment of time and effort. The blog will cover all of our projects, including the Chandler Personal Information Manager, the Cosmo sharing/calendaring server, and the Scooby calendaring web application.

OSAF, a unique organization dedicated to the creation and widespread adoption of open source application software, is looking for a contract web designer/developer to be responsible for interaction design and web development for web applications that include email, calendaring, task management and contact management components.

Please see OSAF’s Employment page for details on this and the other positions we have open.

OSAF would like to welcome Philippe Bossut who joins the OSAF staff as Development Manager for the Applications Group. He will manage the team developing Chandler’s Graphic User Interface (GUI), bringing his passion for the end user and his experience in shipping desktop applications that the rest of us can use.

You can see more information on Philippe and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

We are looking for a dedicated systems administrator and tool smith who will maintain and extend the systems supporting the Foundation’s development activities. This person will oversee and advise the IT support function for a dynamic group of non-technical, non-profits that share space in our SOMA offices.

Please see OSAF’s Employment page for details on this and the other positions we have open.

PyCon 2005, the Python conference, http://www.pycon.org is the week of March 21 in Washington D.C. There will be a fairly sizable representation from OSAF this year. We will be doing two presentations, one on building Chandler parcels and one on PyLucene. Thursday night there will be a Chandler BOF session.

In addition, Ted Leung will be leading a two day Developer Tutorial and Sprint during the pre-conference sprints on March 21 & 22. And if you are interested in PyLucene, Andi Vajda will be one of the OSAF’ers at the sprints, so there will be opportunities to do PyLucene stuff as well.

The Developer Sprint will be the first time we get to test out the “Developer Dogfood” aspects of Chandler and see if open source community developers can understand our architecture and APIs, and actually build a working Chandler Parcel from scratch in 2 days.

OSAF would like to welcome Mike “Bear” Taylor who joins the OSAF staff as Build Tools & Release Engineer in the Build/QA workgroup. Bear has always been interested in the work required behind the scenes delivering an application to users. He officially joins the team at OSAF after volunteering on the project almost from the beginning. His role as Build Tools & Release Engineer is to help tame the complexities of building a product in three distinct environments.

You can see more information on Bear and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

OSAF would like to welcome Brian Moseley who comes to OSAF from Covalent Technologies and from Critical Path, where he led a team creating a web-based personal information manager. At OSAF he’ll be working to develop the Chandler server which allows Chandler clients to share collections of information with each other.

You can see more information on Brian and the other OSAF staff on our People page.