Update on Spicebird 0.7

sivakrishna — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:02:47 -0400

When we set course for 0.7 release, the major objective was to include support for multi-protocol Instant Messaging, blogging and many other changes to the UI & features. Prasad already gave an update about this. We had to take unexplored paths and sometimes we were not be able to guage how deep the rabbit hole was. It sure did take a huge effort, but after solving the challenges, we have been running smoothly for quite sometime now. For the purpose of numbers, 108 bugs were fixed in the last month.

Progressing towards enterprise release

sivakrishna — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:33:52 -0400

Things are moving ahead steadily towards Spicebird Beta 0.7. We will have all the features listed in our Roadmap, except basic email tabs. We had to shift email tabs to the next version to ensure we can work on more stable tabs implementation. We are planning to release 0.7 by mid of June, 2008. The deadlines are as usual tight and require us to spend marathon hours at work. Though that can be an excuse for not many updates from us, we will try to keep posting as & when we have some time.

Spicebird says "Hi!"

sivakrishna — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:43:34 -0500

Spicebird, our desktop collaboration suite, is almost near to the open source alpha release. We are holding its wings to ensure it gains proper weight before it flies. Being the user loving bird it is, it wants to say a "Hi" to you. And here it is, a preview of Spicebird.

It was created completely in-house and that should be an excuse for any amateurism.

Until we got hold of tools like x11vnc, vnc2swf, gimp, audacity, vnc2swf-edit, creating a demo video seemed to be a task for professionals. Good news is, with these tools it is much simpler than what it appears to be. When I get time, I will write a detailed step-by-step procedure of how we created this video.