Chandler
Developer:	Open Source Applications Foundation
Latest release:	0.7.0.1 / September 10, 2007
OS:	Cross-platform
Genre:	Personal information manager
License:	Apache License
Website:	chandlerproject.org/

Chandler is the name of a personal information management (PIM) software suite which is free software, previously released under the GNU General Public License, and now released under the Apache License. It features support for calendar, email, tasks and notes. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization founded by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software/open-source software. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... // An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... A personal information manager (PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The Apache License (Apache Software License previous to version 2. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Personal information management (PIM) refers to both the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks (work-related and not... This article is about free software as used in the sociopolitical free software movement; for non-free software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... The Apache License (Apache Software License previous to version 2. ... A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... In common language, a task is part of a set of actions which accomplish a job; the sense is that useful work is getting done. Task analysis is the analysis or a breakdown of exactly how a task is accomplished, such as what sub-tasks are required. ...

Chandler is being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation. The main programming language is Python and runs under Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. It was named after the novelist Raymond Chandler, and inspired by a PIM from the 1980s called Lotus Agenda. The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization founded by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software/open-source software. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an author of crime stories and novels. ... Agenda is a DOS-based personal information manager, designed by Mitch Kapor and Jerry Kaplan, and marketed by Lotus Software. ...

Chandler design goals:

• Build on open source software that supports open standards, choosing projects that are reliable, well documented, and widely used
• Use the Python language at the top level to orchestrate low level, higher performance code
• Design a platform that supports an extensible modular architecture
• For the desktop client, choose a cross platform U/I toolkit that provides native user experience
• Use a persistent object database
• Build in security from the ground up
• Build an architecture that supports sharing, communication, and collaboration

Chandler is also the subject of the non-fiction book Dreaming in Code:Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg. Open standards are publicly available specifications for achieving a specific task. ... In an object oriented database, information is represented in the form of objects as used in Object-Oriented Programming. ... Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software is a (2007) Random House literary nonfiction book by Salon. ... Scott Rosenberg is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. ...

See also

• List of personal information managers

The following is a list of personal information managers. ...

References

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External links

• Chandler Project Official Website