An Introduction to Building Chandler Parcels.notes

TITLE OF PAPER: An Introduction to Building Chandler Parcels
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PRESENTED BY: Ted Leung & Katie Capps Parlante
REPRESENTING: OSAF

CONFERENCE: PyCon 2005
DATE: March 24, 2005
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Overview of Chandler:
    3 pane + 2 nav bar view
    User declared stored data types

Since all types of items are viewed in the same list, the toolbar provides
filter buttons (Mail, Tasks, Calendar...)

The left-most pane contains special collections like your Inbox as well as
the All collection.
    Exampless: All, Mail in, Out, ToDo,..

Should work well with David Allen's "Getting Things Done" productivity
style.
    Triage style: In list, prioritoze, process, Done list

Parcels: User plugin components
    Example: Simple RSS reader
    Can type imported event type; example: Meet
    Import resulting data into Chandler's database

> Katie takes the podium

Extending Chandler
Chandler is data driven. To extend Chandler, new data types are added.
Chandler will discover the data and enter it into its DB

Example:
    Uses XML to define a kind of object, example is a DeliciousPost which
        has a superkind of content:Note.
    Properties assigned new data types: Display name, attribute collection,
        URL, author, form for detailed view display

Parcels
    Package up as XML file
        Kinds and items
            Schema kinds, menu item, event, DetailTrunkSubtree
            Associated Python Code
    These go into parcel.xml

Sprint
    More sprint details (see references below)

    Design feedback from sprint:
        XML sucks
        Too much repetitive boilerplate

Chandler status:
    Limited calander sharing (iCal 1.0 level)
    First mail client
    First pass at GUI eye candy, Mac version particularly needs help
    Uses WX windowing package

Wiki centric community involvement

Questions

Q: We saw the note type, what other kinds are available?
A: Calendar events, tasks.

Q: Is it possible to access the Twisted APIs to implement e.g. a Jabber
    client?
A: Yes. Marlowe is an IRC bot that talks to Chandler using Twisted.

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REFERENCES: {as documents / sites are referenced add them below}

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ZaoBaoTutorial (details
    from sprint)
Wiki: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/
Mailing lists: dev@osafoundation.org, design@osafoundation.org
IRC: irc.osafoundation.org:6667#chandler

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