Penelope
Penelope is an open source extension to the Mozilla Thunderbird mail application.
Qualcomm's intention with the Penelope project is to join the Eudora® user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on Mozilla and Thunderbird. It's not our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.
Qualcomm is committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have.
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Team Members
The core members of the Penelope project are currently:
- Steve Dorner, QUALCOMM®, original author of Eudora for Macintosh
- Jeff Beckley, QUALCOMM, original co-author of Eudora for Windows
- Dale Wiggins, QUALCOMM, longtime Eudora developer
- Geoffrey Wenger, QUALCOMM, longtime Eudora developer
- Matt Dudziak, QUALCOMM, longtime Eudora project manager
- Mark Charlebois, QUALCOMM, Linux developer and Thunderbird user
Get Involved
If you'd like to help develop Penelope, either watch this page or send one of the team members an email.
We are currently in the process of entering all our feature plans, as well as requests and comments from the Discussion page into the Penelope Bugzilla Database. Please take the time to look through the list of features and changes already planned.
If you would like to comment about how a feature is implemented, or about other details of the feature, feel free to add a comment to the bug.
If you like a feature, but do not have a comment about it, please avoid 'Me too!' or 'I agree' comments. Instead, please VOTE for the feature. (The voting option appears just above the 'Additional Comments' section when you are viewing a bug).
Note: in order to comment on, or vote for bugs, you will need to have a Bugzilla Account.
For Developers
If you are a developer and want to get involved, see the Penelope Developer Page
Group communication
To discuss Penelope, see the Discussion tab above, the Penelope Section of the Eudora Forums or the unofficial newsgroup emailman.software.clients.eudora.penelope. The latter is accessible via web or newsreader.
- Core team members hang out in the IRC channel '#penelope' on irc.mozilla.org'. For basic information on getting started with IRC, see the Penelope IRC page.
- The Penelope Section of the Eudora Forums provides a forum for discussing ideas, making suggestions, etc..
QUALCOMM Involvement
Eudora has been a QUALCOMM product for many years. QUALCOMM continues to have a keen interest in the users of Eudora, and is being kind enough to donate the time of the above staff members to the Penelope project.
Trademarks Detailing
QUALCOMM and Eudora are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated