[Decibel] Summary of aKademy 2006

[Robert McQueen]

Tobias Hunger wrote:
> Hello there!

Hi,

> I am back from aKademy in Dublin at sunday and thought it would be nice to 
> write up a short summary of the event for all of you. I actually wanted to do 
> this earlier, but I fell sick and spend the last two days in bed with the flu 
> I caught in Dublin.

Thanks for the summary & sorry to hear about your flu. I think many
people have suffered recendly with aKademy-flu.

> On Tuesday Friedrich W. H. Kossebau had organized a BoF Session on 
> communication and collaboration. Robert McQueen used the opportunity to give 
> a short introduction to Telepathy. My impression is that this has greatly 
> helped the other people in the room to grasp the concepts better.

For the interested, I used the slides from my GUADEC talk, which can be
found here:
http://projects.collabora.co.uk/~robot101/telepathy-guadec-2006.odp

> Friedrich showed a small application of his that displays contacts from the 
> addressbook on the panel. You can then use the information from the 
> addressbook to chat the person up, send mails, look them up on google maps,  
> etc. That is exactly the kind of application I want to see more of!

Absolutely! :)

> We had a lively discussion about what telepathy can offer to Kopete (Michael 
> wants to write a Telepathy plugin).

It seems that progress is going well with this, and Will has also
started looking in to using libkopete to provide Kopete's protocol code
as a Telepathy connection manager.

> All in all it was a very interesting BoF session, even though it was a bit too 
> much focused on the communication aspect for my liking: This was due to the 
> developers participating were mostly from the communications camp. We would 
> have needed more office application developers to explore the collaboration 
> aspect further.

I think yes and no... No; because until we have stuff like Telepathy in
place to provide the infrastructure, the collaboration stuff just can't
happen. Yes; because we need to tell them what we're planning to
provide, and what else they need from us (APIs and use cases).

> This was a very worthwhile trip to the wonderful island of Ireland!

I agree, it was excellent to meet up with everyone.

> Best Regards,
> Tobias

Regards,
Rob

-- 
Robert McQueen
Director, Collabora Ltd.