[Dev] Chandler as Moz AddressBook?

[Brian Douglas Skinner]

Hi William,

Thanks for posting to the Chandler dev list about address books and 
contact management.  I visited your OpenContact.org site and spent a 
while browsing through the forums.  I admire your effort.  I'm looking 
forward to someday having better open standards for creating and sharing 
contact data.

 > As I understand it, Chandler will be a platform-independent,
 > Open Source PIM application.  However, it seems that Chandler
 > will also be implementing a new proprietary schema for address
 > book data, based on the info found at
 > 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/ContactSchemaNotes#Chandler_1_0_Schema_notes

Actually, that page is a little out of date now.  The section you were 
looking at shows the contact schema as it was back in the Chandler 0.1 
release.  (It was accidentally mislabeled as the "1.0 Schema". I 
apologize for the confusion!)

For our current Chandler 0.3 content model, see these pages:
http://www.osafoundation.org/docs/current/model/
http://www.osafoundation.org/docs/current/model/parcels/OSAF/contentmodel/contacts/Kinds.html

:) Brian



William Levin wrote:
> Dear Chandler Dev Team,
> 
> I have been reading the OSAF Dev mailing list with great interest for
> several weeks now.  I have particular interest in the way address books and
> contact management will be handled in Chandler.  David Beinvenu's and Bill
> Seitz's recent inquiries about accessing the Mozilla address book code
> prompted me to write this letter.
> 
> A while back I began a crusade, OpenContact.org, to explore the
> possibilities of standardizing contact management with centralized address
> book repositories.  Many people feel that synchronizing contact data between
> applications that use proprietary address book formats can be a tedious and
> error prone task.
> 
> As I understand it, Chandler will be a platform-independent, Open Source PIM
> application.  However, it seems that Chandler will also be implementing a
> new proprietary schema for address book data, based on the info found at
> 
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/ContactSchemaNotes#Cha
> ndler_1_0_Schema_notes
> 
> A robust Open Source contact management schema may not be in the near
> future, but I am curious what developers think about the prospects of a
> truly open, modular, extensible address book for applications like Chandler.
> I am not a developer, but as a user I recognize the need for a centralized,
> standardized contact management solution.
> 
> If anyone would care to share their knowledge about how Chandler's address
> book repository works, I invite you to contribute to the forum at
> 
> http://opencontact.org
> 
> so as not to congest this Dev newsletter with off-topic content.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> William Levin
> 
> P.S. -- I am a Macintosh user, and I'd be happy to test any aspect of
> Chandler on Mac OS X 10.3 if there is an opportunity to help.