I'm going to put my blog on hiatus in order to focus more on internal OSAF issues.

So many of you have demonstrated huge interest in and support for Chandler, and I am incredibly appreciative for that. As the cheers of the crowd spur on the marathon runner, the encouragement and even the sometimes impatient anticipation of Chandler's well-wishers boosts our morale and helps us keep going.

We've already been at this quite a while, and it's evident there is yet a long way to go. There is an inevitable point in a project, and we have reached it, where the most important thing is to focus single-pointedly on execution in order to deliver on the potential there is so much excitement about. So this is precisely what I am going to do.

Every project and every entrepreneur has its weaknesses, and a leader who wants to create a great organization learns to cast an unbiased eye on himself and the undertaking as a whole to figure out how to improve in those areas that are holding back progress. There's a part of the story which is about what's working well and what isn't in the group, and a part of the story about how the leadership of the organization is and is not dealing effectively with the challenges. I aim to look unflinchingly at what I need to do personally, what I need to ask of others, what I need to let go of, and where I need help to get the overall pace of execution to move more quickly, which is the paramount goal. You'll forgive me if I don't reveal all the details in public -- at least not in real time. After all, transparency is not Reality TV.

So many things about OSAF have gone well so far. There is a great and carefully thought-out mission about bringing the open source model to applications development and thereby creating great software. There is an over-abundance of innovative new ideas about personal information management which we are crafting into an executable product design (at long last). We have a team which has many talented indiividuals who are committed to the project. We've even thought through a business model for sustainability. What remains is the sometimes unglamorous process building the complete team and orchestrating the complex software development process efficiently to realize the dreams we have created. It is to that end that I am now trying to turn my energies to.