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OSAF Press Room

Information for Press and Analysts. Media requests can be sent to: media inquiries

  1. What's New at OSAF
  2. Press Coverage
  3. Web Coverage
  4. Public Events where OSAF will be in attendance
  5. Milestones
  6. Press Guides to OSAF & Chandler

What's New at OSAF

New information posted to the OSAF website or the Chandler Wiki is collected via an RSS aggregator on our website homepage webpage. Mitch Kapor's weblog is also available as an RSS feed. Alternatively you can subscribe to these RSS feeds with your own RSS newsreader to pull the same information without visiting our website.

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OSAF press coverage

Google News search for recently published news articles referencing Mitch Kapor.

Significant published stories about what OSAF is doing:

Web coverage

Google Web search for web sites referencing Kapor AND Open Source.

Significant web references about what OSAF is doing:

2006

  • 8/14/2006, SDA Asia, New Personal Information Manager in the Making, by Priya George. "Mitch Kapor and his group of open source developers are working on a new application called Chandler a successor of Lotus Agenda, tentatively set for release early next year, which will have the utility of Agenda without the hassles."
  • 8/07/2006, Wired News, Mitch Kapor Thaws Fossilware Fave, by Joanna Glasner. "Mitch Kapor made his fortune designing the first PC spreadsheet, but his favorite creation is an obscure personal information management app called Lotus Agenda."
  • 2/15/2006, NewsForge, Test Drive: Chandler PIM , by Nathan Willis. Good review of the Chandler 0.6 release especially from a Linux point-of-view.
  • 2/14/2006, NewsForge, Introduction to CalDAV, by Nathan Willis. Summarizes the work done on this open standard for calendar servers and references OSAF's work on the protocol, our Cosmo server implementation, and the Chandler client support.

2005

  • 1/13/2005 - CNET news.com, At the heart of the open-source revolution, interview by Paul Festa. Mitch answers questions about open source, Chandler developments, and the relationship between Chandler and various Mozilla Foundation projects.
  • 1/10/2005 - Boston Globe (boston.com), Group aims to capitalize on Firefox success. Robert Weisman quotes Mitch Kapor on the significance of Firefox's success to other open source projects including Chandler.

2004

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Public Events where OSAF will be in attendance

2006

  • 27 March 2006, 7th Information Architecture Summit, Vancouver, BC. Mimi Yin will participate on a panel entitled, Tagging and Beyond: Personal, Social and Collaborative Information Architecture
  • 23 March 2006, Ted Leung will be on a panel Open API's: What Should You Know? at the 2006 Nonprofit Technology (N-TEN) Conference in Seattle
  • 14 March 2006, The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI 7:30-9:30 pm. Mimi Yin, OSAF's interaction designer for Chandler will present: Getting Things Done: Technology and Practice. Chandler and David Allen's GTD share a common goal: to provide a unified framework for collecting, processing, organizing, and reviewing information, resulting in a PIM system that is trusted and complete. In this presentation, Mimi will look at how Chandler builds a gradual ramp for users unfamiliar with GTD to start thinking and working in the GTD framework, and strives to go beyond GTD.
  • 9 March 2006, O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego. Mimi Yin will present a session, Personal Information Architecture and Chandler
  • 24-26 February 2006, Addison, Texas (near Dallas). Pycon 2006. OSAF is going to have a slightly larger than normal presence at PyCon this year. Three members of the OSAF staff are giving presentations. For details see OSAF at Pycon.
  • 14 February 2006, San Francisco CA. The Open Source Business Conference. Mitch Kapor will present a keynote: Beyond Open Source: The Future of Collaboration and the New Knowledge Commons. A good summary of Mitch's presentation was posted by ZDNET editor Dan Farber.

2005

  • 25 April 2005, New Orleans, LA. The OASIS Symposium on the Future of XML Vocabularies. Mitch Kapor will present the opening keynote: Business at the Crossroads: The New Paradigm of Opennes.
  • 21-25 March 2005, Washington D.C., Pycon 2005. PyCon is the Python developer's conference. OSAF plans to host a developer sprint, presentation session, and BOF. A number of OSAF staff will be in attendance.
  • 1 February 2005, Burlingame, CA OSDL's Enterprise Linux Summit. Mitch Kapor will participate in the Keynote panel, An Open Conversation' with OSS Notables, moderated by OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen. Mitch will appear along with Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton and Brian Behlendorf. The session will focus on the increasing importance of Linux and open source software in today's complex IT environment.

2004

  • 21 October 2004, Denver CO. EDUCAUSE Mitch Kapor will make a featured presentation, The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Academy.
  • 5-7 October 2004, Web 2.0 conference. San Francisco, Hotel Nikko. Web 2.0 is a new conference focusing on emerging business and technology developments on the Web, with particular emphasis on the leading figures and companies driving innovation in the Internet industry. Mitch Kapor will make a presentation on Chandler, Tues. Oct. 5th. (audio recording of presentation can be heard here )
  • 28 July 2004, OSCON 2004, Portland, OR. Mitch Kapor, Ted Leung, John Anderson, and Brian Kirsch presented a panel A Developer's Tour of Chandler (.ppt -- 4.15 MB). The same evening all the OSAF developers at the conference attended a BOF session to anuswer questions and meet folks interested in Chandler.
  • 24-26 March 2004, Washington, D.C. -- PyCon 2004, PyCon is a community-oriented conference targeting developers (both those using Python and those working on the Python project). Mitch will give the keynote address (see a Linux Journal article that reviews the speech, and also some informal notes on the keynote can be found here). Ted Leung and Jeffrey Harris will host a four-day Chandler Sprint prior to the conference March 20-23. OSAF will also host a BOF (Birds Of a Feather) Q&A/social event during the conference. (see: Lotus Founder: Open Source is Route Worth Taking, by Sean Gallagher, eWeek March 25, 2004 for comments on the speech)
  • June 8, 2004, Institute for Software Research (ISR), University of California, Irvine. Mitch Kapor will presenting the the Keynote address for the 2004 ISR Research Forum entitled, "Chandler: An Open Source Personal Information Manager." Mitch's presentation. (PowerPoint format)
  • 26-30 July, 2004 -- O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2004 (OSCON)at the Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, Oregon. OSAF will present a 90 min. session, "A Developer's Tour of Chandler".
  • 6-10 November 2004, Chicago, IL -- CSCW 2004, the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Mitchell Kapor will deliver the opening plenary address, and Lawrence Lessig will give the closing plenary.

2003

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Milestones

    • Obtained 501(c)3 nonprofit status for OSAF in February 2002.
    • Posted first public code (release 0.1) on April 21, 2003.
    • OSAF receives $2.75 million in grants to fund Higher Education version of Chandler

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Press Guides to OSAF and Chandler

    Press, analysts, and others who would like a Quick Start guide to information on the OSAF organization and the Chandler product. All this material is available on our website, through our various weblogs, and Wikis. The Press Guides just provide a navigation aid.

    Included are a collection of presentations made to the OSAF Board of Directors, and external events.

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