Mitchell Baker to join OSAF
Mitchell Baker
Application Foundation (www.osafoundation.org). OSAF is a non-profit
organization whose mission is to "Create and gain wide adoption of Open
Source application software of uncompromising quality." OSAF was founded
by Mitch Kapor, who has been joined by Andy Hertzfeld, John Anderson,
and a small development team (www. osafoundation.org/people.htm). OSAF
is actively developing its initial product, a new application known as
"Chandler" which will manage email, appointments, contacts, and tasks.
OSAF also hopes to play a role in promoting open source application
development in general.
I am delighted to see Mitch, Andy and John engaged in this mission, and
excited at the chance to participate. My role at OSAF is to guide OSAF's
relations with its growing community - the open source community,
developers, consumers and potential customers. I'll help OSAF develop a
work style that allows the entire community to participate to the
maximum extent feasible. That means getting information dispersed as
quickly and effectively as possible, developing good feedback channels,
driving the integration of qualified contributors into the core
development team, developing policies for the project when necessary,
and whatever else develops. Our shorthand for this is that I'll oversee
OSAF's "Community and Partner Relations."
At my request, my role at OSAF will be part-time. I will continue my
role as Chief Lizard Wrangler at mozilla.org. OSAF will fund a portion
of the time I spend working on the Mozilla project as part of its
mission to support the development of open source applications. I can't
think of two roles that better complement each other and I'm extremely
gratified by OSAF's support of the Mozilla project.
I'm very proud of what the Mozilla project has achieved. Sharing what
we've learned with the OSAF should benefit everyone. I'm doubly lucky to
be involved in both projects and excited about the future.
Mitchell
Peter Lairo
> OSAF
> is actively developing its initial product, a new application known as
> "Chandler" which will manage email, appointments, contacts, and tasks.
Wil "Chandler" use Gecko/Mozilla; or willt it "compete" with it (as in:
be a completely different project)?
If, shouldn't we be focussing our efforts a bit more? Flooding the
"market" with a load of _less-polished-than MS_ products will not serve
to provide the mainstream masses with a plausible alternative to MS. :-\
PS. I liked you quote so much, I made it my signature line. Hope you
don't mind. ;)
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Regards,
Peter Lairo
'What we're seeing with Web sites that are viewable only with IE is the
privatization of the Web.' (Mitchell Baker)
Mitchell Baker
discussions about sharing technology, knowledge and experiences. Gecko
is in the plans for Chandler, we'll see what else develops.
I also expect the two will remain separate projects. OSAF will develop
Chandler and other products, working closely with other open source
projects. But trying to merge any other project with Mozilla would be
an enormous, and potentially counter-productive move.
That's very cool about your sig line :-)
Mitchell