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OSAF Directors Meeting

OSAF Directors Meeting. February 10, 2003. Agenda. Product Organization Community Higher Education Initiative Mozilla.org Discussion Patent Issues Other Updates. Product Update. Chandler in a Nutshell. Open Source Personal Information Manager

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OSAF Directors Meeting

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  1. OSAF Directors Meeting February 10, 2003

  2. Agenda • Product • Organization • Community • Higher Education Initiative • Mozilla.org Discussion • Patent Issues • Other Updates

  3. Product Update

  4. Chandler in a Nutshell • Open Source Personal Information Manager • Email, calendar, contacts, tasks, free-form data • Easy sharing of all information • Next generation information management platform

  5. Deployment • Cross-platform application: Macintosh, Linux, Windows • Local and remote access to data • Peer-to-peer and server-based • Architecture extensible to PDA’s and phones

  6. Openness Public Availability of Source Code Built on Open Source Components Python, wxWindows, OpenSSL... Using Open Standards iCalendar, RDF, Jabber... Free and Commercial Licenses Goals Catalyze a new software ecology Jump-start innovation

  7. Target Users • Early Adopters • PIM fanatics • Users with heavy email and calendar needs • Outlook refugees • Initial Institutional target: higher education • Ongoing discussions • Possible foundation support

  8. Data Model: Items • Chandler inherits the spirit of Lotus Agenda • Everything is an item: • Email message, event, contact, task, attachment, web page, note... • Items have properties & a payload • Universal: creator, last modified, person, group, project, topic... • Specific: Home telephone, start time, recipient... • User-defined: status, urgency... • Items can be linked, annotated, dynamically grouped into views • Schema (in RDF) • used to represent item types, properties, and their relations

  9. Storage Model: Repository • Items are held in a repository • Item histories maintained • Repository may be local or remote, either in a peer PC or on a server • Repositories are automatically synchronized in whole or in part

  10. User Interface: Views • View is formed by a query on a repository, which returning an item or set of items • View formats include table, outline, address card, calendar columnar view, various detail views • To the user each view generates a page • Web-style navigation: local and remote access via URI, forward and back buttons, bookmarks

  11. Innovations • Fast, convenient search • Automatic recognition of names, dates, locations • Transparent, robust security • Integrated instant messaging and presence management • Opportunistic scheduling

  12. Sharing • Repository browsing • Look up a contact or see a calendar • Access a shared document • Subscribe to external data source • Add class schedule to my calendar • Automatic updates of contacts • Public & private data

  13. Extensibility • Plug-ins • transports, parsing, indexing, spam and virus handling, view types, etc. • Scripts, filters, and agents • UI customization • Schema evolution

  14. Status • Architecture, design, coding all underway • 13 full-time staff (9 paid, 4 volunteer) • Significant input from community contributors • Early alpha release April, 2003

  15. Email Calendar Jabber FTP LDAP Web Chandler Architecture Server Intelligence Middleware Client Server PDA Sync & services Web Servlets Canvas Calendar Authorization ¿Replication? ? Tasks Language Parsing Engine Media Handlers HTML, Image, Sound, etc. Extensible RDF Schema Management Garbage Collection/ Compaction ? Contacts Agent Framework Email TBD Protocol Query Versioning Table Widget Viewer Parcel API Projects Introspection HTML Engine Sample View Indexes/ Full Text Parcels Transactions Full-text Search API Python Obj Cache Documents ¿Resource Discovery? RDF Schema RDF Access Core Chandler App e.g. Prefs User-Defined Repository Access Protocol Database (e.g. BDB) Networking RDF Objects

  16. Deployment Scenarios PC within campus Kiosk-mode within campus PC-centric Personal PC Campus Server Campus Server Server + Server Intelligence Server + Server Intelligence Server + Server Intelligence Personal PC Kiosk Middleware + Client Server + Server Intelligence Middleware + Client Middleware + Client

  17. Organization

  18. Organization • Current Headcount: 13 (9 employees, 4 volunteers, 1 contract consultant) • Open Positions • Development Manager • Security Developer • Graphic and Interaction Designer • Additional Hires Planned for2003 • QA Manager, 2 Developer/Designers

  19. John Anderson Andy Hertzfeld Morgen Sagen Katie Capps Parlante Jed Burgess Rys McCusker Lou Montulli Developers and Staff • Aleks Totic • Mitchell Baker, Community • Chao Lam, Product Management • Pieter Hartsook, Marketing Specialist • Jurgen Botz, Information Systems

  20. Higher Education Initiative

  21. Background • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation mission in higher education • Mellon IT funding initiatives at MIT, Dartmouth, etc. led by Ira Fuchs • Fuchs invited OSAF to meet members of Common Solutions Group (CSG), consortium of major research universities • CSG has critical calendaring needs

  22. Action Plan • Two full-day meetings established mutual interest in CSG-OSAF collaboration • OSAF has submitted application for three month planning grant to develop requirements for “Chandler on Campus” • Intent is to get Mellon funding for follow-on implementation phase • Universities to become first organizational deployment target

  23. Patents • IP mine field (no news here) • Biggest external threat to OSAF (and other OS projects) • Time for joint action? • Need Board guidance

  24. Other Updates • Facilities • Move planned this summer to 543 Howard St., San Francisco • Share space & staff with other Kapor-Klein entities • Marketing / Pulbic Relations • Engaging sparkPR for more leveraged and consistent public image

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