[Kde-pim] KDE PIM for ISVs

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi PIMsters!

Executive summary:
at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage I attended a talk about GNUmed, a free software 
aiming to manage needs of general practitioners and similar professions. On 
one of the last slides the speaker noted that they would like to have some 
kind of integration with KOrganizer, for example for managing appointments 
with patients.

Details:
I asked the speaker, Karsten Hilbert, if he could write up some details about 
their requirements, hoping that it might turn into a nice KDE related summer 
of code idea.

However, the current requirements [1] do seem to be too little for an actual 
SoC project, so I subscribed to the GNUmed mailinglist and inquired about 
their position of a more-than-organizer integration.

I am not sure how far the KDE4 related things will be in the time frame of 
Sommer of Code, but IMHO this would be a nice opportunity to proof the 
viability of our platform for ISVs, i.e. having a show case of a fully 
indendent software integrating with KDE infrastructor or using our 
applications' IPC capabilities for interaction.

Since GNUmed is written in Python it also could serve as a show case that it 
is not necessarily required to use C++ for KDE interaction/integration.

I told them (please let me know if this is wrong so I can send them correct 
infos) that there are basically two options:

1) providing resource plugins for accessing PIM data stored in their 
framework/database

2) let KDE PIM handle the data and delegate tasks to it (more like the 
original idea they had, using DCOP for talking to KOrganizer)

For KDE4/Akonadi it should also be possible to access the data directly from 
both frontends, correct?

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/MiniProjects#AnchorKOrganizer

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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