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Chandler: Open Source Personal Information Manager

Chandler is an open-source personal information manager that includes email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and free-form items, offering easy sharing and collaboration features. It is a modular and extensible platform available on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Chandler organizes and structures information according to how people think, with a rich ability to associate and interconnect various items. It is both an app and a platform, customizable and extensible to suit individual needs. The Heart of Chandler project reimagines user experience, emphasizing sharing and collaboration. Chandler strives for info-centric users with high volume information transactions and data that spans multiple domains. Scheduled institutional adoption in 2005 targeted at higher education users. Key Westwood requirements include nomadic usage, interoperability, security framework, and improved feature performance. Currently seeking community engagement and involvement to address challenges in feature prioritization, architectural clarity, and decision-making.

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Chandler: Open Source Personal Information Manager

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  1. Chandler and Westwood CNI 2003

  2. Chandler • Open Source Personal Information Manager • Email, calendar, contacts, tasks, free-form items • Easy sharing and collaboration • Server optional • Linux, Mac, and Windows • Modular and extensible platform

  3. The Heart of Chandler • Organize and structure information the way people think • Rich ability to associate and interconnect all kinds of items • Ground-up rethink of user experience including sharing and collaboration • Both an app and a platform: customizable and extensible

  4. Project: My Wife’s Surprise Party Calendar About Davis Beach bike ride Flower Delivery Guests Arrive Planning Meeting Surprise party for Elaine! Kids’ song rehearsal Put together slide show Pick up cake Participants Message Threads This is a “Surprise Party” document. “About” introduces the project, while “Calendar” and “Participants” indicate key people and tasks. The “Message Board” keeps everyone in sync.

  5. Project: My Wife’s Surprise Party Calendar About Davis Beach bike ride Flower Delivery Guests Arrive Planning Meeting Surprise party for Elaine! Kids’ song rehearsal Put together slide show Pick up cake Participants Message Threads By clicking on a participant (Mitchell Baker), you can preview key contact data and see her related activities and tasks. This highlights the interconnections between disparate data.

  6. Chandler 1.0 (Canoga) • Q4 2004 (“alpha” Q2 2004) • Baseline feature set + a few compelling ‘cool’ features • Target: ‘info-centric’ users • High volume information transactions • Information spanning multiple domains and richly inter-related • Low reliance on organizational infrastructure • Self-declared technology enthusiast • Routinely collaborates with other info-centric users

  7. Chandler 2.0 (Westwood) • Scheduled for Q3 2005 • First version for institutional adoption • Target: students, faculty and staff in higher education • Incremental requirements form basis for $2.75 MM CSG/Mellon Grant

  8. Timeline: Canoga

  9. Timeline: Westwood

  10. 0.2 Release • Released Sep 25th 2003 • Data Model and Repository • Notification Framework • Agent Framework • Chandler Presentation and Interaction Architecture [CPIA] (first-cut)

  11. 0.3 Release • Presentation and Interaction Architecture sufficient to migrate Calendar and Contacts • Parcel Framework • Security Framework • Sharing Framework • Demonstrate Agents and rudimentary email • Repository improvements

  12. Key Westwood Requirements • Nomadic usage and central repositories • Standards based CAP (Calendar Access Protocol) client • Full interoperability with standards based infrastructure • Robust security framework • Next level of maturity in features, performance and robustness

  13. Westwood Grant • $2.75 MM grant to developer Westwood over next 9 quarters • $1.5 MM from Andrew Mellon Foundation • $1.25 MM ($50k each from 25 CSG universities) • A new model for financing open source projects • First step to engaging higher-ed community • Creation of Westwood Advisory Council • Key vehicle for OSAF/CSG collaboration

  14. Key Challenges • Hiring and growing pains • Feature prioritization • specify scope of Chandler (Canoga) more clearly • Nailing down architecture and inter-dependencies • Making decisions faster and communicating them better • Accurate bottoms-up scheduling • Managing reliance on external technologies and partners • Community Engagement and Involvement

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