Chandler (PIM)

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Chandler

Chandler calendar view
Developed by	Open Source Applications Foundation
Latest release	0.7.6 / May 16, 2008
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Personal information manager
License	Apache License
Website	chandlerproject.org/

Chandler is a personal information management software suite described by its developers as a "Note-to-Self Organizer" design 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. A Preview version of the software was released on September 10, 2007.

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^[1], 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.