On Monday, March 10, we made the fourth release (RC4) of ODB version 1.0 available. This release addresses 7 issues found by endusers and reported through the Mantis bug tracking system and 13 issues found internally.

Organizers' Collaborative is happy to announce the third release (RC3) of ODB version 1.0. This release addresses 5 issues found by endusers and 13 issues found internally.

Details of what has changed and source code were posted on Sourceforge, at this link:

On March 3 we issued the second release of ODB version 1.0. This release fixes some installation issues that users had with the 2/15/06 release. Details of what has changed and source code were posted on Sourceforge, at this link:

February 22, 2006 -- Section A of the ODB user manual has been posted online in HTML format! Please take a look and feel free to comment on any of the pages, located at

Are you wondering what is new in version 1.0? A lot! Compared to 0.9.6, version 1.0 incorporates 84 new features, fixes 55 minor bugs, and provides 54 'usability enhancements'. Here is a complete list.

OC had an event at the Urban League on February 15 attended by 22 people; the audience was split evenly between tech consultants and 'accidental techies'. The press release for this event is now available at PRweb.

February 10, 2006

To all ODB users and prospective users:

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.7 of the Organizers Database (ODB) software! This is a small maintenance release to fix a small number issues found since the previous release in October 2005.