[Design] Google looking for OpenOffice developers

[Ted Leung]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote:

> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>>  Right now the calendar, or actually a subset of all possible  
>> calendar
>>  functionality, is our focus. The reason is simple: anything that
>>  takes energy away from what we are doing now and in the next release
>>  is just going to delay us further.
>
> What Selva was talking about sounds to me a little like a feature  
> in recent releases of Office on MacOS (and possibly on Windows too,  
> I'm still stuck in 2002) that allows linking various binary-type  
> objects to calendar items (for example, an agenda for a meeting,  
> written in Word). It seems a natural way to work, and from what I  
> heard, users get attached to this kind of feature very quickly.  
> FWIW, I think it would be good to have a plan to incorporate such a  
> feature in Chandler. Even having an item kind that simply holds a  
> URL (file:// or maybe webdav://) of a binary object and lets the OS  
> figure out which application to use to open it would be a good start.

It sounds to me like maybe the most productive thing to do would be  
for you and Selva to get your heads together *off list* and figure  
out how to build some rudimentary functionality in this vein.    Feed  
free to post technical questions about parcel/kind building to dev at .   
I promise to code review your efforts when you finish.

Ted
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