Something else I’ve had on my blogging queue for a while:
Last month, when we had the Calendar meeting in Hamburg, we met with some of the OpenOffice.org and Sun engineers. One idea that came up that I intended to mention here is that OpenOffice.org has a Community Innovation Program, funded by Sun Microsystems, which [...]
What feels like years ago, my friend Greg Wilson, a book author CS prof at the University of Toronto with a deep understanding of both the practical realities of software engineering and open source, roped me into being a “client” for a class he teaches on software engineering, where he matches students with open source [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Fresh off the press: Shredder alpha 1, the first alpha release of the next version of Thunderbird, is available for download!
As I mentioned previously, we’re going to be calling the alpha releases of Thunderbird Shredder, to make sure that people don’t get confused and download unstable releases thinking that they’re “the final thing”. That [...]
If you ever used a Firefox alpha or a nightly build, you know it’s called Minefield. As I’ve explained, we’re going to do the same for Thunderbird, using the name “Shredder”. Now we need some artwork!
First order of business when I grew up would be the t-shirt design, but in this [...]