Development of Home Zone and Aurora has slowed lately, as I’m currently busy with an internship at Mindquarry, among other not-yet-public things. Mindquarry is a quite young startup, founded by MSc graduates of Potsdam’s HPI (where I’m currently an undergraduate student) and funded by Hasso Plattner Ventures. The company is developing web-based collaboration tools for small to medium teams to share their files, track their tasks, manage a wiki and more. If you’re thinking “hey, that sounds like what 37signals is doing”, you’re certainly not wrong, but this is a seriously enterprisey Cocoon-based approach which is licensed under the MPL. Luckily, I got assigned to work on a native Mac client to replace their Java SWT client (yuck! I completely agree with Jens Alfke) for synchronizing files and having a quick way to check tasks. To get an impression of my workplace, check my corresponding Flickr photoset.

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