I’ve been meaning to write more about groupware and collaboration, and hopefully will find the time for a longer post on the topic, but here’s a bit of timely news. Ludovic Marcotte and friends have just released a combination of some of their previous extensions to Thunderbird and Lightning as something they call the SOGo [...]
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Shared contacts, the cheap & cheerful way
Miscellaneous Cool Things
The Mozilla Calendar project released version 0.7 of Sunbird and Lightning. Sunbird is a standalone calendar app kinda like Apple’s iCal, and Lightning is the same functionality as an extension for Thunderbird. This version is miles ahead of where the last (0.5) version was. It’s not finished yet, but it’s definitely usable, and I’ve had [...]
Upcoming trip to Paris
I’ll be in Paris, France, from Nov 12 to the 19th. I’ve got a few things scheduled already, but I’d be happy to organize an informal “pot” about Mozilla, MailCo, Thunderbird, or whatever interests. Oh, and for those of you who don’t know, I’m French (and American (but not Canadian)) and speak French (and English [...]
New forums are ready!
Good news! Thanks to cbeard and the folks at Mozilla Labs, I now have placeholder forums where discussion can ensue in a public place, without requiring every post to be approved by me. For starters, I created three fora: one for Thunderbird Planning, one for discussion of Internet Communications Innovations, and one for random MailCo [...]
Instantbird
Here’s something interesting — Florian Queze and Quentin Castier just released Instantbird, which is a XUL application wrapped around libpurple, the library behind Pidgin (once GAIM), Adium, Meebo, and others. There are some licensing issues around doing the same in Thunderbird right now, but it’s nice to see that some people are connecting these various [...]
"I just really want to know what’s going on with Thunderbird"
Someone called Rod asked a bunch of questions in reaction to a recent post: Your developers left. Where did they go? How are they going to continue to participate in Thunderbird development? Who is going to be taking their place as the lead developers? If you don’t know yet, what’s your action plan for figuring [...]
“I just really want to know what’s going on with Thunderbird”
Someone called Rod asked a bunch of questions in reaction to a recent post: Your developers left. Where did they go? How are they going to continue to participate in Thunderbird development? Who is going to be taking their place as the lead developers? If you don’t know yet, what’s your action plan for figuring [...]
CalDAV good times ahead?
While I wasn’t looking, a bunch of people have been making real progress in standards-based calendaring interop. I’ve been talking to a few of them, and it’s fascinating to see momentum building in that arena. There are clients getting mature (Thunderbird with Lightning, Apple’s iCal in Leopard, Chandler Desktop, Evolution, probably others I’m forgetting or [...]
Open letter to the Thunderbird community
Thus far, my public comments about MailCo have been quite high-level, and spanning big fuzzy concepts like communication, organizational structure, etc. Here I’d like to touch on Thunderbird specifically. Both Scott McGregor and David Bienvenu have posted that they are leaving Mozilla Corp. My understanding from chats with them weeks ago (I hope I’m not [...]
Thinking org-onomically
I’m cheerfully stealing the title from the current advertising campaign from TIAA-CREF, which I’m finding interesting in the context of this post — how can a corporation for the public benefit (my own non-legal term) make money? As a bit of background — the premise of the creation of MailCo is that Mozilla will provide [...]
