The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the 25 university members of the Common Solutions Group (CSG) have agreed to provide OSAF a total of $2.75 million in grants. These funds will allow OSAF to extend the functionality of the Chandler software application to meet the information technology needs of higher education.
Complete announcement
Chandler in Higher Education - Westwood (More info and links from OSAF Web site)
Chandler and Higher Education (12 slide PDF)
I have been searching for the ultimate pim software to replace my aging and overpriced Outlook 2000. Need to move away from M$.
Going to settle for Chaos & Time for now> AS they offer a pretty complete package with good layout.
Looking fwd to Chandler in future!!!!!
Posted by: c at October 5, 2003 07:58 PM
Mitch, Congratulations! I'm happy how you're making progress on your dream, how many people you're involving and how it's evolving.
You may know about our lab, Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt Is there any way that we might work together?
We just submitted a proposal for a "Social Networking Kit" optmized for marginal connectivity. http://www.no-hit.com/andrius/archives/000074.html
We came up with 5 modules that we would like to see available for off-line activists with irregular Internet access:
- present ourselves through our stories and patterns
- find each other through our projects and initiatives
- follow information on the same topics but in different volumes
- target our help with a web of references
- integrate our efforts with a culture of open investigation.
We've also pioneered various ways of "working openly", specifically a fractal way of organizing large global teams, but also smaller teams http://www.ms.lt/team/ And a way for customizers to offer small services, say for 100 euros, for people who pay in advance, such that if they are not happy the money goes to their favorite charity. We've tried this with good results through http://groups.yahoo.com/group/personalbrain/ (for users of TheBrain) in helping with www.deepquest.net
We'd be very excited to offer our team-building services, for example, to organize interest in Chandler in areas with "marginal connectivity", and to find funding or related work for that. Or to organize makers of tools for thinking, as we have already done at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingpowerfully/ Thank you for thinking of us! Peace.
Posted by: Andrius Kulikauskas at October 6, 2003 12:53 PM