I’m slowly learning about the world of groupware, which I’m thinking for the moment as access to shared resources (folders, address books, calendars) and coordination features like meeting scheduling. It’s a world which is dominated by Exchange, especially in North America and especially in companies, especially in larger companies. There are alternatives, however, including [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, the Mozilla Calendar project, which includes the Lightning calendar extension to Thunderbird, is moving right along. It’s currently at version 0.7, heading towards a 0.8 release ASAP. I’ve asked the Calendar team how I can help, and the answer has been clear — they need more developers. So [...]

One of the big topics that I’m planning to devote a fair bit of MailCo energy towards is to help the Thunderbird extension “scene”. Part of that is making it easier to make extensions for Thunderbird, with better docs, cleaner APIs where necessary, etc. One of the dreams that people have mentioned repeatedly [...]

Gary Kwong (the person behind the Rumbling Edge) just posted his analysis of the survey he’s done, based on talking to Thunderbird users who are already fairly “in the loop”. It’s worth reading.