Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar

Mike Potter writes: "According to an article at Mozillazine.org, Mozilla.org will be releasing an open source calendar. "Thanks to an extremely generous offer of code from OEone Corporation, the new calendar project will have a significant codebase to start from. OEone make Penzilla, an operating environment for internet devices based on Linux and Mozilla. ... For more information on, and a technical description of Penzilla Calendar, see OEone's website." I think we'll be seeing a lot more applications built with Mozilla, now that its stable." Mundane as it may sound, with tabs in place (and behaving more sanely), a good calendar is probably my most-wished-for Mozilla feature. The screenshots certainly bode well for this one.

Comments

feature creep?

[DNS-and-BIND]

Isn't this creeping featuritis? All I want for Christmas is Mozilla 1.0...

Re:feature creep?

[zmooc]

Yes, but that they're going to start a calendar-project doesn't mean that it will slow the mozilla-development. In theory... I sure hope they keep these things seperated. In my opinion they should also have separated the browser from the mail&news-client etc.

PIM's on Computers not such a good idea

[euroderf]

I like PIM's, but myself I stick to a file-o-fax. It doesn't crash or lose data, and is easy to read, never runs out of batteries and is portable. I don't see what advantage a computer would bring, it would tie me down and lose data.

But my main gripe is the interactivity of the new PIM's, like Outlook Express in Office XP. They allow one's data to be inspected by one's superior, and make for an invasion of personal space by the hierarchy at work.

One of my girlfriends Joselle had to cancel a date with me because her boss inserted a work appointment at the same time, without notice, and she had to obey.

The only way to be truly provate and control your schedule is to have it written down privately. Computers allow for the domination of one's calendar by the digital elite.

I just did a search

[ajuda]

I just did a search for "calendar" on freshmeat... 131 projects found
Do we really need mozilla to include yet another thing which we can just find somewhere else? Before we know it, Mozilla will include its own kernel! And they are wondering why 1.0 is soooo far off?

Re:I just did a search

[cjpez]

Vitality ratings on Freshmeat are a joke. Unless you release a new version every day, you don't have a prayer of making over the 2% mark. (I'm exaggerating, but still.)

Linux itself has 21%. This for an OS that has a new version every three weeks or so (not counting the Alan Cox "Hi I'm a Juggernaut and Can Compose Kernel Diffs In My Head" releases). It says that vitality is "based on age of project, number of announcements and date of last announcement." So if I don't announce every CVS checkin my project isn't healthy?

Bah. Freshmeat's vitality system has GOT to be revamped. I'm not saying it's not a potentially good measure of a project, but I think it's way off.

Aside from that, though, yeah. If more people decided to work WITH existing projects to make them BETTER instead of setting off to build "the best darn CD player there is for X11," we might have less projects, but the overall quality of each would be better.

Re:why not give this to gnome or kde instead?

[elefantstn]

First of all, I think they're donating to Mozilla because it's built on Moz technology (XUL, etc.). But since it will presumably be GPL (like the rest of Mozilla), there's no reason Gnome or KDE can't use it. What does it matter if it was donated "to" them? It's GPL, Gnome/KDE are GPL, if it's good, put it in there!

why not gnome or kde instead? XUL is why.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well if you went to the Oeone website, you would see that the whole ui has been built in XUL. It makes more sense therefore to give it to Mozilla than to KDE/GNOME who already are working on calendaring programs, and wouldn't appreciate porting XUL code to QT/GTK.

Re:why not give this to gnome or kde instead?

[Tim Macinta]

Mozilla is more cross platform than Gnome or KDE (i.e., it runs on Windows at least as well as Linux, from what I've seen). If OEone wants to target Windows users, then using XPCOM and the other Mozilla technologies make more sense than Gnome or KDE. Remember, they're not using the Mozilla browser, but rather the cross platform toolkit that the browser also happens to be built on top of.

Do people read the articles anymore?

[ihatelisp]

What are all these complaints about bloat and never-will-be-released 1.0?

• Mozilla is an open project. Any outsider can contribute and develop applications that use the Mozilla platform.
• It is clearly stated that Calendar will be post-1.0 work. Mozilla.org is not going to hold the 1.0 release for the calendar.
• Key Mozilla developers will concentrate on the 1.0 release and will not spend much effort on the calendar.
• If you don't like it, don't compile it into your build. You have the source, after all.

Free software is about freedom and choice. Stop discouraging side projects just because you don't like it.

Calendaring server is what we need

[BigJim.fr]

We now have clients a plenty, but no way to share selected parts of our calendar with groups or individuals. A server would be really great and also be a step on the quest for a mSexChange replacement. What are the open standards for calendar sharing ?

Re:Could someone please explain.

[unapersson]

Did you not notice the bit about it being developed by an outside organisation? It is merely being included into the Mozilla CVS tree so others can work on it. It's not taking people away from working on the browser, so I'm not sure why people have such a problem with it.

The planet *doesn't* have a 13 lunar month year

[maggard]

Basic science:

There aren't 13 lunar "months" in a solar year. Indeed there is no resonance between the two at all.

However from the linked site you seem only tenously acquainted with reality, apparently not enough to ever actually look at a lunar calendar.

Score: -3 (troll with pseudo-science & bad math!)