For the last eight months I have been fortunate enough to have my work on Calendar funded by the Mozilla Corporation. During this time we've had two releases of both Sunbird and Lightning (0.3 and 0.3.1), and are on the cusp of a third (0.5). We have added tinderbox builds for our localizers, delivery of nightly builds to our testers (via AUS), crash reporting support to Sunbird, iTIP/iMIP invitation support to Lightning, read/write support for Google Calendar (via an extension), and improved CalDAV support, and have developed a community of regular contributors and testers. I am proud to have helped steward the Calendar project these past eight months and to have directly contributed to many of the above accomplishments.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and so my MoCo contract ends Saturday, March 31. On Monday, April 2, I begin working for Flock, the "social web browser" based on Firefox. I will continue to contribute to the Calendar project, and will continue driving the Sunbird/Lightning 0.5 release as much as I can, however I'll no longer be all-Calendar, all-the-time. At Flock, I want to push some of their work on the core of Mozilla back into Mozilla-proper, so that we all can benefit. I feel so lucky to have found work where I can continue to hack on Mozilla stuff full-time.
I'll be in Mountain View all of next week for indoctrination, and I hope to see folks for lunch, dinner, hockey or what have you. Working with everyone at MoCo has been a wonderful experience, and I deeply appreciate the opportunities I've had these past few months.
With the landing of bug 373380, Lightning will now attempt to send invitations to any attendees you may have added to the attendee list of your event. These invitations have been tested with the latest versions of iCal.app and Outlook. We'll be testing with Zimbra soon. This functionality will be in the upcoming 0.5 release.