[General] Project Description for Wiki Homepage

[Mimi Yin]

So, I went to add the product description to the Wiki Homepage and of  
course realized that it was all wrong. The Wiki Homepage should be  
more of a Pro-JECT description than a Pro-DUCT description. More of a  
top-down, matter-of-fact explanation of what we're doing, our hopes  
and dreams and where we're going.

http://chandlerproject.org/Product/ChandlerProjectHome

Things in here that aren't in the product description:
+ Open source and standards-based are front and center now
+ What category of software we're in: Following Ted's example and  
using personal information manager (again).
+ Target user group: Small groups that need to collaborate
+ Specifically calls out Chandler Desktop, Chandler Server and  
Chandler Sharing Service as separate components
+ What kinds of items we support in Preview
+ An explanation of where we're at with email.
+ Goals for Preview are more explicit and include growing our community!
+ Longer-term goals with extensibility etc.

The copy is up on the wiki already (since the Homepage hasn't  
actually been pushed out yet). I will leave it there and update with  
additions, edits accordingly.

Mimi

===

Run with it. For people who use their Inbox as their task list,  
Chandler picks up where your Inbox leaves off.

Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based personal  
information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and  
a core set of information management workflows modelled on a broad  
survey of Inbox usage patterns and David Allen's GTD methodology.

Chandler consists of of a Chandler Desktop, Chandler Server and  
Chandler Hub Sharing Service. Chandler manages Notes, Messages, Tasks  
and Events. Chandler is not a full-fledge email application. However  
you can send and receive items from other Chandlers users as well as  
set up special Chandler IMAP folders to drag emails from your  
favorite email application into Chandler.

We are currently working towards our Preview Release (version 0.7).  
Our goals for Preview is to establish an early adopter user base,  
collect feedback to guide our progress towards 1.0 and grow our  
fledgling community.

Longer term, we hope to enrich our PIM workflows with contacts and  
relationship management and take on the challenge of integrating  
documents, resources and large catalogs of data into the core  
information management workflows we have today.

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