Mozilla Calendaring with Lightning 0.9

I've been following the development of Sunbird, part of the Mozilla Calendar Project for a long time, perhaps even as far back as it's very beginning in 2003 when the announcement was made "Mozilla Sunbird Standalone Calendar Project Launches".

Knowing Mozilla and the great successes that we've seen with Firefox and Thunderbird I've always been hoping that Sunbird would be the next calendaring project of the future. But for some or other odd reason it seems that there are not enough developers willing or able to spend time on this project. This was made clear by Simon Paquet on Wednesday, 18 February when he posted "Calendar Project at a critical juncture".

That announcement was kind of disappointing to me when having seen progress in the last number of years even if progress has been slow. But, thinking about it again, perhaps the decision was not so bad after all and I agree that perhaps the right decision has now been made. See also a follow up posting "More on the Sunbird/Lightning decision" on Thursday.

Thus, it is time that we focus all our energy on the Lightning project. Let's help Mozilla fulfill the mssion of the project.

I have now added, installed and tested the latest version of Lightning 0.9 to my version of Thunderbird on Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.2 as well as on Intrepid and can now for the first time interact smoothly with colleagues and friends who are still stuck in the MS Outlook world.

What is Mozilla?
The Mozilla project is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.

The site with no purpose or goal?

As can be seen in the number of posts to this site it may very well be true that there is no purpose for it's very existence. Perhaps one day it will all change. Let's hope the day will come sooner rather than later.

In the mean time I've made some changes to the layout, my profile and have also included my twitter feeds in the sidebar.

Feedback is welcome in whatever shape, form or technology where you can find me.