Re: Eudora to Thunderbird

The future of Thunderbird may be hard to call at this point; I found
an email from Dave Miller on the Mac Eudora list that linked to a
post by Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Corp. CEO) on her blog regarding
Thunderbird:
"Do you think email is important part of Internet life? Are you
interested in seeing something interesting and exciting happen in the
mail space? Believe that Thunderbird provides a much-needed option
for open source email alternatives and want to see it get more
attention on its own? Long to see something more innovative than
Thunderbird in the mail space happen?

So does Mozilla."

<http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/
email_futures.html>

If you go to the main page on her blog, she has several other posts
responding to questions raised by the Thunderbird announcement.

She does encourage everyone to take the discussion to the Thunderbird
development and discussion areas (http://forums.mozillazine.org/
index.php?c=8).

Tony Roybal
IST

On Aug 3, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Johnathon P Kogelman wrote:

> There appears to be some concern about what will happen with the
> development with Thunderbird:
>
>
> Mozilla Thunderbird to Find New Home as Mozilla Foundation Focuses
> on Mozilla Firefox
>
>
>
> Thursday July 26th, 2007
>
> On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced
> that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate
> organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to
> focus ever more closely on Mozilla Firefox.
>
> While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its
> taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation is responsible for only
> Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear
> that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox
> dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as
> the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird.
>
> Mitchell outlines three possible options for a new organisational
> structure for Thunderbird. One is to create a entirely new non-
> profit, which would offer maximum independence for Thunderbird but
> is organisationally complex. A second option is to create a new
> subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird, which would
> keep the Mozilla Foundation involved but may mean that Thunderbird
> continues to be neglected in favour of Firefox. A final option is
> to recast Thunderbird as community project, similar to SeaMonkey,
> and set up a small independent services and consulting company to
> continue development. However, there are concerns over how the
> Thunderbird product, project and company would interact.
>
> On his new weblog, lead Thunderbird developer Scott MacGregor has
> posted his thoughts on the finding a new home for Thunderbird. He
> states that he favours the third option. Scott explains that this
> means that Thunderbird would continue to use Mozilla Foundation
> infrastructure, such as the CVS repository and Bugzilla, and the
> new company would perform a similar role for Thunderbird as the
> Mozilla Corporation does for Firefox, developing, releasing and
> supporting the application.
>
> Observers of the Mozilla community may have seen Thunderbird's new
> home coming. In April, former Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger
> wrote a weblog post discussing autonomy for non-Firefox projects.
> He suggested renaming the Mozilla Corporation to the Firefox
> Corporation and pointed to a newsgroup message in which Mozilla
> Corporation CTO Brendan Eich declared "Thunderbird will have to fly
> free". Ten days later, Mitchell Baker wrote a weblog post on the
> Mozilla Foundation's focus on Firefox, stating that the
> Foundation's resources would be used to "assist other Mozilla
> participants and projects, but not equally with Firefox and not at
> significant cost to Firefox".
>
>
> Found here: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22235
> (Thanks to Jingmon for the link)
>
> Johnathon
>
> At 03:36 PM 8/2/2007, Jon Johnsen wrote:
>
>> To comply with campus minimum security standards, we will
>> soon be changing the email client we support for our users from
>> Eudora to (we hope) Thunderbird.
>>
>> This presents the challenge of moving mailboxes, address
>> books, and filters from Eudora to Thunderbird. Our initial
>> research and testing hasn’t left us thrilled with the project. (We
>> keep our users’ mailboxes on a file server, not on the users’
>> local computers.)
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a source of information which will
>> assist us? Has anyone already successfully completed such a
>> migration?
>>
>> Jon Johnsen
>> Information Systems Office
>> 461 University Hall
>> School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
>> 510 642 5030
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Johnathon P. Kogelman
> Operations Manager
> Chemistry, Information Systems
> (510) 642.4838
> jpkogelman_at_berkeley.edu

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