[Cosmo-dev] [Sum]: July 17 - 23

[John Townsend]

With many of the key team members out of the office at the Open  
Source Convention in Portland, OR.. the lists have been fairly quiet  
this past week. Here's a summary of the on-going conversations on the  
mailing list:

Sharing Format Questions

Morgen Sagen has introduced a very interesting conversation about the  
sharing format starting with a series of questions. This thread has  
become quite interesting with key members of the Chandler Desktop,  
Cosmo, and Scooby teams working closely together to determine the  
requirements for the Sharing Format and Protocol. Here's the start of  
the thread:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-July/001154.html

vCard Parsing in Como

Vinu Gopal, our intern working on Cosmo introduces a thread about  
vCard parsing and parsers in Cosmo on the list:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-July/001152.html

Conference Call followup

The strangely named thread "Conference call followup" is a bit  
misleading. A group of developers working on groupware solutions at  
SimDesk Corp. are working on Cosmo and are working on reimplementing  
the data model in RDBMS technologies directly instead of using  
JackRabbit. They are working very closely with Brian Moseley and this  
discussion is the talk back and forth about how to approach the data  
modeling on this project. For more info, please read:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-July/001181.html

Automated Item submission to a collection

This thread was started by Jared Rhine and discusses the idea of  
submitting items directly to a collection from an email address. You  
can read more here:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-July/001252.html

Dojo Information Model

Katie Capps Parlante introduced a message on behalf of Brian Skinner,  
a former member of the OSAF staff now working on his own Open Source  
project called OpenRecord. Brian fills us in on the fact that IBM is  
working closely with the Dojo Foundation on Data Store APIs and that  
the work is proceeding quickly. Brian suggests that the Cosmo and  
Scooby teams might have a vested interest in this topic in order to  
make those Data Store APIs useful to our projects in the future. Read  
here for more info:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-July/001252.html

Introductions

Steve Mook of the SimDesk team does a short introduction of the  
various team members at SimDesk that are going to be working on parts  
of Cosmo and what they hope to accomplish. Welcome Steve, Randy, and  
Charles! Your presence and help is greatly appreciated!

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-July/001281.html

[I have copied these over from the Scooby list since they were cross  
posted to both lists]

Cosmo/Scooby Merge Discussion

John Townsend introduced an idea that the team at OSAF had been  
talking about for the past week. The idea had come up in the context  
of discussions of sharing URLs and the security involved with them.  
This is a lengthy, on-going discussion that starts here:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/scooby-dev/2006-July/ 
000628.html

[VOTE]: Cosmo/Scooby Merge

Brian Moseley called for a vote/poll of all of the people on the  
Cosmo/Scooby lists to ask for their opinions on the Cosmo/Scooby  
Merge. You can read the entire thread starting here:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/scooby-dev/2006-July/ 
000685.html

We about to close this conversation down with most people either  
being neutral or in favor of the merge.

Thanks,
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