Some of the topics in the early chat were building the community, "what is chandler?", and ZaoBao, the RSS aggregator parcel.

I think that a lot of people don't really understand what Chandler is, so they think it's yet another Outlook replacement, which is boring, so they aren't interested in Chandler. I look at Chandler as a platform for building tools to help deal with the deluge of information. That deluge occurs in many forms: e-mail, RSS items, events, tasks, contacts, and a bunch of other free-form and structured information. The base Chandler product is a jumping off point for constructing (via customization, training, and programming) a personal information environment.

Chandler has a rudimentary RSS aggregator called ZaoBao. I think that trying to turn ZaoBao into a killer aggregator could help show what Chandler can do, and uncover some areas of the architecture that still need work.

In the late chat, the most interesting discussion was around Bayou, a project from Xerox PARC that may help with some of the data replication issues that the Chandler team is facing.

The Chandler team will be posting the IRC chat logs at some point.