Notes from Cosmo 1.0 Brainstorming session

Numbers in parentheses indicate number of sticky votes

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Brainstorming 


Tenets
    Standalone (WebUI Only) (2)
    Remote access for desktop user
    Signup/login/subscribe usability
    Interop w/ major clients (2)
      evolution
      ical3
      lightning/sunbird
    Integration with other webservices
      facebook
      myspace
      ning
      [make our service attractive to other services] (2)
    Scalability
    Outlook features
    security (3)
    public calendars
    plugins/open platform for the web UI (2)
    run your own cosmo
    outsourced cosmo (household/org)
    ISP running cosmo / virtual private cosmo
    Personalization
    create your own social network - integrate w/ Ning
    mozillamail integration
    push "open service/open data"
    open source projects / bounties

Features (Bugs)
    Month view
    Overlays
    Custom Recurrence rules
    Upload ics (1)
    Create/delete calendars
    Full data export/import (backup/restore) (2)
    E-mail client / server
    Contacts
    Directory
    Embeddable cosmo server
    Embedable UI (in another web page)
    Task clusters/threads
         subtasks
    Clustered servers
    Remote subscriptions (3)
    mobile access/ui (1)
    mobile sync (1)
    database partitioning
    document mgmt
    being able share a contact list
    acl on items (1)
    SMS in/out (google text messaging reminders)
    robust alerting - notification framework - Jabber, (alarms vs server level notifications)
    comet notifications (svr push)
    ACL
    real time notification
    offline mode / google gears
    readonly bug
    authentication service
    filling out dashboard
    print
    themes/skins
    finish branding
    ads
    RSS input (if microformats)
    Microformats
    Public calendars
    social network integration (2)
    XFN/FOAF
    clean/public javascript apis - clean/public all apis (6)
    run cosmo in a non-j2ee container
    resource scheduling
    be able to store and act on different media types
    Cosmo on Amazon EC2/S3
    Web UI profile for webrunner (mozilla xul runner)
    remote drives / network storage
    auth plugins (shibboleth/saml, ldap, openid)
    office hours/avail hours
    free/busy
    preferences (default view) (2)
    agenda view
    year view
    quotas
    overlay exchange calendars
    scheduling w/ exchange
    data migration from exchange
    sync/roundtrip w/ exchange
    search
    date picker
    UI: cosmo cal widgets, bookmarklets (2)
    linux distro integration (2)
    integration w/ other app servers (besides tomcat)
    instrumentation
    documentation
    user help
    modular reusable pieces
    firewall
    i18n/l10n
    natural language quick entry
    rss autodiscovery for bookmarkable urls
    calendar colors
    group summary dashboard (1)

Target Users
    People not using J2EE
    People using Google (2)
    PPL using Outlook/Exchange (2)
    Consultant working w/ a large corporation/enterprise
    Client intranet for consulting(services) firm
    Software integrator or application developer
    small org w/ outward facing focus (FLOSS ppl, MoveOn)
    venues
    Colleges/Universities
    people using lotus notes
    people using yahoo groups
    developers or orgs w/ money who want a calendar server
    resellers/consultants of cosmo
    geek running own server (tinkerer/hobbyist)
    early adopters/influences
    happy w/ some cal client, want private server

Scenarios
    schedule a meeting w/ friends (cross domain) (5)
               w/ coworkers (within domain)
            meetings vs events
    share contact list
    bar or venue publishing events/calendar (1)
    dr/dentist/hairdresser scheduling (1)
    WebUI as replacement for wikis (like myface)
    small organization (1)
    families/households
    543 howard room scheduling
    browse/subscribe to public event calenars
    dean's calendar w/ assistant
    departmental group calendars / inter departmental groups
    student groups (public events)
    individual student calenars
    sharing between groups with disparate security profiles
    teacher of a class - publicize - TA office hours
    dating
    outlook at work, cosmo at home
    group intranet
    build/run tarball w/o dependencies
    

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"Slam Dunks"

Service vs Run Your Own
Ingrained workflow vs trends
private scenarios vs public scenarios
enable connections to outside world vs complete a universe

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"Scheduling"

Real time spec - poorly named
CalDAV scheduling atop iMIP
CalDAV scheduling can schedule to a users inbox, not only to a
specific calendar

-- TedLeung - 27 Sep 2007