[dot] KDE PIM Team Meets to Talk Akonadi and KDE 4.1

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From: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
Dept: akonadi-is-good-for-you
Date: Thursday21/Feb/2008, @12:49

KDE PIM Team Meets to Talk Akonadi and KDE 4.1
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   The KDE PIM [http://pim.kde.org/] crew met again at Osnabrück for
three days of hacking, discussing and community building. The big topics
were Akonadi and KDE 4.1. The team settled on the plan to release KDE
PIM with KDE 4.1 based on the traditional backends and include the first
platform release of Akonadi as future base for PIM applications in and
around KDE. The meeting was kindly hosted by Intevation
[http://www.intevation.de/index.en.html] and supported by the KDE e.V.
[http://ev.kde.org] and KDAB [http://www.kdab.net]. Read on for a report
or see the notes on the website
[http://pim.kde.org/development/meetings/osnabrueck6/].
    Mike, David, Frank, Sebastian, Jaroslaw, Ingo, Tom, Thorsten,
Thomas, Kevin, Tobias, Volker, Cornelius. More photos from the event
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikearthur/sets/72157603859596691/].
     Much time was spent on discussing and working on Akonadi
[http://pim.kde.org/akonadi], the future PIM data storage backend which
provides a platform for efficient storage and retrieval of PIM data. The
modular architecture makes it easy to extend the platform by agents and
resources which provide access to various sources of data or encapsulate
complex functionality like mail threading for convenient use in
applications. Tom Albers is working on an Akonadi based KDE 4 version of
the mail client Mailody [http://www.mailody.net/] as a first full
application making use of the new platform. Kevin Krammer spent some
time on providing a migration path by implementing a bridge between the
traditional KResources and the new Akonadi agent world.

     The meeting also provided the opportunity to better integrate some
new people. Ingo Klöcker made use of this by passing on maintainership
of KMail to Thomas McGuire. Sebastian Trueg who joined the meeting for
the first time worked together with Tobias König on integration of
Nepomuk [http://nepomuk.kde.org] with KDE PIM, which will bring the joys
of tagging, semantic search and virtual folders to KMail and all the
other KDE PIM applications.

     Next step is to have a focused Akonadi hackfest to solidify the
platform and make it ready for the first release with KDE 4.1 in July
2008.