Sorry-- I had this in my drafts from the WWDC 2007, and meant to publish it while I was attending the WWDC, but, um, I didn't. So here it is.. better late than never.
-Aaron
New visitors may not know that we are a "Apple Friendly" group of developers on this project.. which means that if everyone could have a Mac, they would, but in some cases it's not always practical. We have a few core members of the development team (Joao, Marcelo, and Rafael) who are in Brazil, where importing a Mac (or buying one local) can be even more expensive than the normal "high" prices one expects for Apple products. In spite of that, we are a focused on delivering Arcticfusion (and Coolerserver) first to the OS X Server environment, followed by Linux, and eventually Windows environments. This site, and the demo's you see are running on an Apple Intel OS X Server (10.4) as well.
As long time developers, and OS X Fans, we thought it natural for Webapplica, Inc to join the Apple Developer Community this past year, and this week I am attending my first WWDC conference. Hopefully, we are able to evangelize the Arcticfusion project, as well as gain some useful insight that might allow Arcticfusion some cool integration features when Leopard is released in October.
Technical Objectives:
Some of the items we are looking forward to learning more about are:- Caldav development - learn more to help us decide if caldav is, with Apple's support, stable enough to for us to build new calendaring, collaboration, and document management tools that depending on the new protocol
Community Objectives:
Evangelize, and learn more about other people's project and goings-on- http://www.ntractive.com - Elements application, seems to be offering many things that Arcticfusion strives towards, but closed source.
