Comments on: OSAF cuts back — Chandler leaving the nest

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Chandler 1.0 ships

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Chandler 1.0 ships — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:22:15 +0000

[...] Chandler, of course, is the personal-information-management application whose story sat at the center of my first book. I last checked in on the project at the start of this year, when OSAF and Kapor parted ways. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:10:41 +0000

Fair enough. Maybe someday I’ll restart writing again (I’ve started a tumblr blog as a first step) and will tackle the subject myself, without your expertise and inside knowledge.

Good luck on the new book.

Tim

By: Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:08:38 +0000

It is, for sure! I only brought up the “disaster” because, you know, it’s a little piece of my past. (Also, at the time we at Salon were under the illusion that there was a whole team at work on the project — sorry about that!) Anyway, I am just always amazed at these unexpected overlaps in one’s professional life.

Best of luck post-OSAF to you.

By: Brian Moseley

Brian Moseley — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:58:23 +0000

Gee Scott, thanks for bringing up that disaster again! Just to set the record straight, I wasn’t part of a small development team at WebGenesis - I was the entire team, and that was my first software development project. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I like to think that Chandler Server is a better piece of work ;)

By: occident.us » Blog Archive » OSAF 2.0

occident.us » Blog Archive » OSAF 2.0 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:40:25 +0000

[...] be found on the Chandler Project blog and a variety of other sources and commentary can be found all [...]

By: Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:53:46 +0000

Alas, the epilogue had to close out back in September/October. So the blogwill have to do.

From my conversations with Mitch it’s clear that he remains an ardent proponent of open source in general. But he describes the OSAF experience as “humbling” and he has, as you suggest, voted with his feet to a certain extent.

It is indeed an interesting story. For the moment this is as far as I can take it — as I have my own market pressures (and deadline) now on the next book!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:57:22 +0000

I think you are missing a chance to focus on a more interesting story — Kapor’s changing views on the viability of open source innovation. He made an indirect comment about that at his talk we went to at the iSchool in Berkeley, and his involvement in Foxmarks (replacing somewhat his involvement in Chandler) also speaks to that.

As you made the point elegantly in your book, software is hard. Does innovation in software require genius or market pressures? I have my own opinions, but I think it is an interesting question no matter what your opinion is.

Still time to write a new epilogue for the paperback version of DIC?

By: OSAF 2.0 and Me « pbossut’s idle loop

OSAF 2.0 and Me « pbossut’s idle loop — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:02:59 +0000

[...] OSAF 2.0 and Me I’m late to the announcement list and I’m shamelessly borrowing Ted’s post title of the same subject. I won’t go over the why and what and how of OSAF’s restructuring, well covered by Scott Rosenberg’s post. [...]

By: OSAF Cuts Back–Chandler Leaving the Nest | Scott Rosenberg | Voices | AllThingsD

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:16 +0000

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By: Ranger Bob

Ranger Bob — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:25 +0000

Are you sure you don’t mean, “The obituary writers are already CHAMPING at the bit?”