OSAF Operations Group Meeting, August 8th, 2006

• Attending: Jared, Mitch, Heikki, John, Sheila, Ted (Katie and Lisa are on vacation)

Scooby/Cosmo Hiring

• John gives update on hiring. We have a number of candidates in the pipeline in various stages. The state can be viewed at https://wiki.kkie.us/bin/view/OSAF/OsafHiringProgress

Cosmo Sprint Week

• Priscilla organizing events for Sprint Week (social events)
  • Should we include everyone in these events?
  • Games night everyone, Dinner: just the people in the sprint
  • Schwag (T-Shirts, Hats, etc.)
    • Hats on order. (Hats for everyone)
    • Mitch quotes Wayne's World about Schwag
    • Hand out next thursday at lunch

WWDC

• Session started at 10:30am
• Jeffrey and Grant are demoing during the session.
• iCal Server is only included with Leopard Server release.
  • ACL's are supported
  • includes over 500 unit test cases for CalDAV. Could be used to help with QA for Cosmo.
  • Will it be used with .Mac? Not sure.
  • Performance is about the same as Cosmo.. not db, using FileSystem.
• To Do Lists
  • TextControl^? seems to support turning text into system wide todo.
  • Similar in initial impression to stamping.
  • Interesting thing: validating some of our ideas. (slight net positive)
  • Still no one is doing a cross-platform open solution.
  • What is Apple's level of commitment to building an open source community
  • Unclear at this point. We'll have to see what they do.
    • One note: what level of CalDAV support does iCal now require?
    • Similar ideas are floating around in the industry and stamping is getting validation.
    • The TODO System API could be useful for Chandler Integration.

Release Management

• We'll defer this one week to let Philippe get involved.

Wikipedia Conference

• Mitch gave a brief update on the Wikipedia conference.
• Tools continue to evolve to deal with vandalism and maintaining the wikipedia.
• Community continues to evolve and grow.
• John mentioned the write up of wikipedia in the book "The Long Tail" (by the editor of Wired)

-- JohnTownsend - 08 Aug 2006