Mozilla Sunbird

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Mozilla Sunbird

Screenshot of Sunbird
Maintainer:	Mozilla Foundation and community
Stable release:	0.3 (October 11, 2006) _[+/-]
Preview release:	N/A _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Personal information manager
License:	MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website:	www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

Mozilla Sunbird is a free, open source, cross-platform, calendar application developed by the Mozilla Foundation and many volunteers.^[1] Announced in July 2003,^[2] Sunbird is a standalone version of the now discontinued Mozilla Calendar Extension. The latest version is 0.3 ^[3]. Version 0.3 of Sunbird, and its "sister project", Lightning, were scheduled to be released simultaneously in late September 2006^[4], but a release candidate was not made until October.^[5] Mozilla Sunbird is described as "...a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language."^[6]

On June 15, 2004, the Sunbird developers asked the Mozilla community to submit possible new default themes and logos for Sunbird. Three proposed Sunbird logos were submitted to a community vote; Mark Carson's entry was declared the winner on August 12, 2004.^[7] Mark Carson and Chris Cook also developed a theme for Windows and Linux, derived from the "winstripe" theme of Firefox. In late 2004,^[8] a Mac theme was developed by Matthew 'lilmatt' Willis, similarly derived from the "pinstripe" theme of Firefox.