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Chandler (software)

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Chandler
Developer(s)Open Source Applications Foundation
Stable release
Operating systemCross-platform
TypePersonal information manager
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.osafoundation.org/

Chandler is the name of a personal information management (PIM) software suite which is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License. It features support for calendar, email, tasks and notes.

Chandler is being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation. The main programming language is Python, which allows it to run under Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. It was named after the novelist Raymond Chandler, and based on 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 U/I 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

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References

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