Goal for project:

• Identify a handful of UCB staff, faculty and students that are suitable and enthusiastic alpha testers of Kibble, our first release of Chandler.
• We hope to start alpha testing in Fall 2005. We want to start talking to such tester candidates now to better understand our initial users and finalize remaining product features and design
• Ultimate goal is to make sure we are designing the right product to the right "early adopters", so that Kibble will be successfully seeded within a few universities

Goals for meeting:

• Explain Kibble and Westwood general product features and plans
• Get feedback on current plan, identify potential impediments (gaps) and drivers that would lead to faster initial adoption of Kibble
• Discuss suitable criteria for alpha testers. Identify potential small, bleeding edge, workgroups and individuals that may be interested in alpha testing Kibble

Basic workflows for Kibble

• Scheduling an event for myself
• Reviewing/editing my calendar
• Reading new mail
• Composing/replying to mail
• Creating new tasks
• Reviewing/editing my tasks
• Cleaning up items (e.g. deleting or junking items)
• Searching for items especially mail
• Distinguishing mail for follow-up
• Manually organizing items (e.g. filing mail)
• Reviewing/editing a shared calendar
• Scheduling an event with someone else
• Reviewing mailing lists
• Auto filing of mail and other items

Philosophical/Organizational differentiators:

• Open Source
• Standards-based, no desire for lock-in
• Cross platform
• Users can self manage and mantain. No system administrator required.
• Simple but effective user interface. Users understand and trust the product.

Product Differentiators

• More natural means of collecting items: all items live in the "all collection". One place to enter, process and search/retrieve items.
• More natural means of processing information: easy affordances for triage and stamping
• More natural means of organizing: simple affordances for labelling or tagging. Items can live in more than one collection
• Collections, including personal calendars, are easily shared
• Shared information is hosted for free, requiring no in-house system administrator for a small workgroup to use Kibble
• Can easily and quickly search through and retrieve relevant items
• Can interoperate with other standards-based clients, especially around calendaring standards.

Base Features

• Basic navigation
  • Sidebar, toolbar, menus, tabbed views, summary and detail views
• Organize items through by labelling (tagging) items to collections
• Item stamping
• Search
• Printing
• Collection sharing
• Developer extensibility

Calendar

• Day & Week views
• Navigation including mini-calendar
• Multi-day, all day anytime and fixed time event
• Reminders
• Recurrence
• Free/busy
• Calendar overlays
• Invitations (no state management)
• Import/Export of iCalendar files

Email

• Sending & receiving (IMAP/POP)
• reply/forwarding
• attachments
• spam detection and filtering
• Multiple-account support
• Rules and filters

Tasks & Notes

Chandler Milestones Ahead

• 0.5 Calendar �Dogfood� release (March 2005)
  • Be able to perform basic individual and collaborative calendaring tasks within a small workgroup
• 0.6: Innovative aspects of Chandler (Summer 2005)
  • Dashboard view and natural collecting and processing of items
  • Task management workflows
  • Incremental calendar and email improvements
• The �Kibble� Release (Winter 2005)
  • Target early adopters
  • OSAF uses Chandler on a day-to-day basis
• Kibble+ Release (Q1 2006)
  • Polish Kibble from real-world usage
• Westwood Release: for Higher Education
• Kibble is not intended to be used enterprise-wide. It is intended for individuals and small workgroups. Westwood is the release we intend to start Chandler campus-wide deployment

Interview questions for alpha candidates are similar to the following: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/LevelPlayingFieldInterview

Next Steps:

• Jeff McCullough^? will help identify small workgroups for OSAF to starting interviewing
• OSAF (Chao, Pieter, Mimi) will improve Chandler intro and marketing materials to test out with Jeff's group and workgroups.