Mozilla Calendar Project
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The Mozilla Calendar Project is a Mozilla driven project to create the Sunbird calendar application and the Lightning integrated calendar. It is being designed to be standalone software with integration with other Mozilla software through the newly created Lightning extension.[1] Sunbird and Lightning are both free software, released under three free software licences: MPL / GPL / LGPL.
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The project started with a single extension for the Mozilla projects known as Mozilla Calendar. It was a free software / open source calendar and personal information manager based on the open iCalendar standard. It was developed as part of the Mozilla project. Now, Mozilla Sunbird and the Lightning project have replaced the Mozilla Calendar. As with other Mozilla projects, Mozilla Calendar was cross-platform, and used the XUL user interface language. It worked with Microsoft Windows, Linux (on both Intel and PowerPC), Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.
The Mozilla Calendar project was announced by the Mozilla Organization (now the Mozilla Foundation) in October 2001. The original code, used by Mozilla Calendar and now the Mozilla Sunbird, was donated by OEone (now Axentra),[2] who had developed it for use in their Mozilla-based HomeBase DESKTOP system. The project was initially led by OEone employee Mike Potter. Unfortunately, Mike Potter and his team had to pull out of development due to other projects taking precedence.[3] Shortly afterwards, Mostafa Hosseini was announced as the new project lead.[4]
The initial plan was for Mozilla Calendar to eventually be integrated into the Mozilla Application Suite alongside the other components. However, this plan was dropped when Mozilla decided to focus on its nascent standalone applications rather than the integrated suite.
Mozilla Calendar could be installed as a component in the Mozilla Application Suite, or as an extension in either the Mozilla Firefox standalone browser or the Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail and newsgroups client. The extension has now been replaced by the Lightning project, a project with similar features, but with tighter integration with Thunderbird.
[edit] See also
- Mozilla Sunbird
- Lightning- Mozilla's Sunbird-like extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
- List of personal information managers
[edit] References
- ^ Calendar Weblog:Lightning 0.1 Released - A page announcing the first release of Lightning.
- ^ mozilla.org Announces Calendar Project- MozillaZine - MozillaZine article announcing the code contribution from Axentra.
- ^ OEone Scales Back Calendar Development- MozillaZine - Mike Potter announces retirement from the project.
- ^ Mozilla Calendar Project Lead Mike Potter Retires, Mostafa Hosseini Named as New Head- MozillaZine - Mostafa Hosseini announced as new head developer.
