Who founded OSAF? How was the idea for OSAF conceived?
Mitchell Kapor founded OSAF. He wrote about the “Origins of the Open Source Applications Foundation” in his weblog on Oct. 17, 2002: OSAF started in 2001 when Mitchell Kapor began to investigate the possibility of developing a modern Personal Information Manager using open source tools and methods. In the spring of 2001, Mitch initiated a limited experiment by hiring a consulting group to prototype a couple of the key ideas. The results were both exciting and encouraging, and so, in the summer of 2001, he took the plunge, committed to open source, and hired the first employee of a fledgling non-profit, the Open Source Applications Foundation, with the mission to create and gain wide adoption of open source application software of uncompromising quality. In February 2002, OSAF obtained Federal 501c3 nonprofit status.
