Chandler (PIM)

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Chandler is a personal information management software suite described by its developers as a "Note-to-Self Organizer" designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring. It's free software, previously released under the GNU General Public License, and now released under the Apache License. Chandler consists of a cross-platform desktop application (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), the Chandler Hub Sharing Service and Chandler Server. Version 1.0 of the software was released on August 8th, 2008.^[1]

Chandler is being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation. The main programming language is Python, and it runs under Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. It is named after the mystery novelist Raymond Chandler^[2], and inspired by a PIM from the 1980s called Lotus Agenda.

Chandler design goals:

• Build on open source software that supports open standards, choosing projects that are reliable, well documented, and widely used
• Use the Python language at the top level to orchestrate low level, higher performance code
• Design a platform that supports an extensible modular architecture
• For the desktop client, choose a cross-platform user interface toolkit that provides native user experience
• Use a persistent object database
• Build in security from the ground up
• Build an architecture that supports sharing, communication, and collaboration

Chandler is also the subject of the non-fiction book Dreaming in Code:Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg.

[edit] See also

• List of personal information managers

[edit] References

• Portions of this article are taken from the OSAF website, published under the Creative Commons Attribution License v2.0.

1. ↑ Chandler Project Blog
2. ↑ Rosenberg, Scott. Dreaming in Code. Crown Publishers:New York, 2007, pg 81.

[edit] External links

• Chandler Project Official Website