Philipp Kewisch is a software developer who currently serves as lead developer on the Mozilla Foundation's Calendar Project. The project, which includes Mozilla's calendar application Sunbird, has benefited greatly from the assistance of Kewisch during the past 2 years that he has been an active participant. In fact, Kewisch was the leading bug-fixer for the project in 2008 with nearly two hundred corrections - a stat that obviously didn't go unnoticed by the project leaders, who appointed Kewisch as lead developer just this past year. Since then, the work that Kewisch has put into developing the project is indeed impressive, especially considering that he is also a university student. In addition to maintaining the Calendar suite and working on various bug-fixes, Kewisch is also the author of several add-ons for Sunbird. In fact, to date he claims no less than 10 of them, and has received a great amount of praise from users and testers of the product, earning an average rating of 5 stars. The most notable of these is the add-on Provider, which allows users to read and write to Google Calendar through integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning applications. While Provider is certainly useful, some have recently complained that version updates aren't integrating properly with Thunderbird and that some of the most important features of Google Calendar, such as Conference Room, are not supported. Nonetheless, the extension gets mostly positive feedback for its functionality by well over 100 users at the Mozilla Add-ons site. Kewisch, who was praised by the project's former developer Daniel Bolzle, seems to have the right amount of dedication and talent to lead Mozilla's ambitious Calendar Project.
Philipp Kewisch is a software developer who currently serves as lead developer on the Mozilla Foundation's Calendar Project. The project, which includes Mozilla's calendar application Sunbird, has benefited greatly from the assistance of Kewisch during the past 2 years that he has been an active participant. In fact, Kewisch was the leading bug-fixer for the project in 2008 with nearly two hundred corrections - a stat that obviously didn't go unnoticed by the project leaders, who appointed Kewisch as lead developer just this past year. Since then, the work that Kewisch has put into developing the project is indeed impressive, especially considering that he is also a university student. In addition to maintaining the Calendar suite and working on various bug-fixes, Kewisch is also the author of several add-ons for Sunbird. In fact, to date he claims no less than 10 of them, and has received a great amount of praise from users and testers of the product, earning an average rating of 5 stars. The most notable of these is the add-on Provider, which allows users to read and write to Google Calendar through integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning applications. While Provider is certainly useful, some have recently complained that version updates aren't integrating properly with Thunderbird and that some of the most important features of Google Calendar, such as Conference Room, are not supported. Nonetheless, the extension gets mostly positive feedback for its functionality by well over 100 users at the Mozilla Add-ons site. Kewisch, who was praised by the project's former developer Daniel Bolzle, seems to have the right amount of dedication and talent to lead Mozilla's ambitious Calendar Project.