Chandler 0.5 Released- March 31, 2005 We've released Chandler 0.5. It focuses on building out some of the core calendaring functionality for supporting basic individual and collaborative calendaring tasks. Feel free to play with it, but PEASE NOTE IT'S NOT READY FOR REGULAR USE YET. NOT READY YET. NOT. (Am I afraid of this point...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000894.html A Chandler User Diary- March 23, 2005 I've been playing with the pre-release builds of Chandler 0.5, due out next week. As an end-user, you definitely don't want to try to use this version yourself (thank you for your continuing patience), but if you want to see how a real product emerges step-by-step, you might find...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000890.html EDUCAUSE REVIEW- March 22, 2005 EDUCAUSE Review has published an article by me: "How is Open Source Special". Thanks to Pieter Hartsook for all the help....http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000888.html Snippets from Emerging Technologies - Tuesday A.M.- March 15, 2005 Networks of amateurs (in astronomy, publishing) are displacing the professionals -- Leabeater, quoted by Rael Dornfest Too much important knowledge is locked up on paper where it's not searchable and hard to get to. -- Jeff Bezos, also by Rael. Pay attention to design patterns for innovation -- Tim...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000881.html Heading to O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference- March 15, 2005 I'm at the airport on my way to San Diego. Should be a good chance to catch up face-to-face with lots of folks. Report to follow....http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000879.html Should Groove Have Gone Open Source- March 11, 2005 Andrew from Blogging on the Free Web asks whether I discussed taking Groove open source with Ray Ozzie prior to the Microsoft acquisition. Unfortunately, one of the constraints of working in the proprietary world is the loss of liberty to be open about the details of business transactions (at...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000878.html Microsoft Acquires Groove- March 11, 2005 Microsoft acquired Groove Networks yesterday and Ray Ozzie was named CTO. The press is focusing on this as about Ray joining Microsoft, which underplays the potential importance of Groove's technology. Microsoft has been a substantial investor in Groove for years and Bill Gates' huge respect for Ray is well...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000877.html How to track a PC anywhere- March 4, 2005 ZDNET Australia This is frightening. By tracking micro-variations in computer clock speed it's possible to uniquely identify a PC connected to the net, regardless of firewalls, anonymizers, etc. So far, a Ph.D. thesis, but practical implementation can't be far off. Has the NSA had this for a long time...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000872.html Ted Leung: Chandler Sprint and BOF at PyCon- March 4, 2005 Ted Leung has posted an announcement about OSAF's upcoming activities at PyCon. OSAF will be running a Chandler sprint at PyCon in about three weeks. The focus of the sprint is going to be writing parcels for Chandler. Chandler's end user functionality is built using parcels, so the parcels...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000871.html |