Bug#190184: ITP: chandler -- personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks etc
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-22
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : chandler
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : general@osafoundation.org
* URL : http://www.osafoundation.org/our_product_desc.htm
* License : GPLv2
Description : personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks etc
>From the web site:
Our product (code-named "Chandler" after the great detective novelist Raymond
Chandler,) is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) intended for use in everyday
information and communication tasks, such as composing and reading email,
managing an appointment calendar and keeping a contact list. Because of the
ease with which Chandler users can share information with others, Chandler
might be called the first Interpersonal Information Manager. (The term PIM was
first used in conjunction with the product Lotus Agenda in the 1980's. Chandler
is the spiritual descendant of Agenda (and has a common designer in Mitch
Kapor.)
Recent open-source groupware products and projects (Evolution, Kroupware) use
Outlook as the baseline for design and functionality. This approach benefits
users because it's familiar, but it doesn't take design risks that could have
big payoffs for users in power and simplicity. We're trying to rethink the PIM
in fundamental ways and we expect to be judged in terms of our success in
achieving that goal. We're building the product by using up-to-date
architectural components such as peer-to-peer networking, integrated instant
messaging, and an RDF-compatible semantic database, and we're not saddled with
legacy code. At the same time, we'll be fully compliant with a variety of open
standards, such as iCal, vCard and the Jabber protocol.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0 with bunk-1 packages by Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux matilda 2.4.20-openmosix-1 #2 SMP Tue Mar 25 15:20:00 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro
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