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For the past three years Google has run an outstanding summer program for students interested in becoming involved with open source software development. Summer of Code offers students a chance to develop relationships with living, breathing software communities by coordinating with as many as 130 organizations and 900 students on 3 month software projects. Stipends are provided to both the mentor organizations and students, making it a very sweet deal from almost any angle.

As we have in the past, OSAF will be participating in SoC as a mentoring organization this year. A full list of projects we believe will be both useful to the project in the long term and stand a high chance of being included in our code base in the short run can be found here, but as in past years outside proposals are more than welcome.

Comprehensive information about this year’s program, including important bits like eligibility and application instructions can be found on the the official FAQ. Student applications will be accepted from March 24 - March 31, so now is the time to find a project and put together a solid proposal!

As always, feel free to ask on one of the Chandler Project mailing lists or in #cosmo or #chandler on irc.freenode.net for more information.

Katie’s post OSAF 2.0 Team seems like a good opportunity to introduce myself in this space. When I first joined OSAF I was asked to do this by Pieter Hartsook but a combination of a bad memory and busy schedule has kept this task triaged Later.

I’m originally from a small town about 45 minutes outside of Portland, Maine. My first brush with software development came during the summer of 2006 when, alongside a 6 day-a-week summer camp job, I participated in Google’s inaugural Summer of Code program. My project for the summer found me working with the GNOME Project implementing an experimental “panel extension” system.

I found Chandler while looking for a Linux calendaring client during my senior year at Williams College and after an internship on the Desktop team working on a project to better integrate the Twisted IMAP server into Chandler I was hired full-time as a server/ web front-end developer.

Most of my work since then has straddled HTTP, working mostly at the protocol level on the server and client side, with occasional forays down into the depths of our database layer and up to the shallow waters of user interface implementation. Most recently I’ve been updating our JavaScript code to use the 1.0 release of the Dojo toolkit.

A second project I’ve worked on recently (alluded to in the title of this post) is the first of what I hope to be a series of interesting hacks designed to expand Chandler into the maze of nooks and crannies that is contemporary personal information management. One of the more important lessons I’ve learned while working in this space is that everyone has a different system for tracking and managing the various things they want to accomplish both in work and in life. While semi-standard systems like Chandler’s Triage Workflow and David Allen’s GTD can help, even the most hard-core practitioners will make adjustments to work with their own personal circumstances. As developers of software designed to “serve the way people actually work, independently and together“, I believe it is our job to lead the way in bringing our ecosystem to people’s real needs.

So without further ado, let me introduce chandler.el, a module for interacting with Chandler Server using Emacs, a popular text editing environment. Instructions for installing and using it can be found at the link above. The current implementation is decidedly rough, but is ready for some real world use and feedback.

This offering is definitely on the techie side, but I hope it serves as a proof of concept for a general class of lightweight applications that have the potential to bring Chandler to the system you currently use to track your life. There is currently a discussion on chandler-users@osafoundation.org in which I’ve solicited ideas for more applications like this, please feel free to chime in there or in the comments to this post with yours!

In the future, updates about chandler.el will be posted mainly on my personal blog occident.us alongside information about whatever I happen to be working on or thinking about at the time. If you’re interested in what I do, do check out that space.

Santiago Lizardo Oscares is a clear open source community supporter. He has been developing open source software for years. Also is an active speaker, participating in events in South America and Europe.

Lizardo created a large list of projects, including: Yerba, MadCommander, SAC.php, Beobachter, Molins Framework, Wthim, etc…

Founder of http://mokzui.com

You could see all his work at http://sourceforge.com/users/slizardo