[Kde-pim] FOSDEM Talk: PIMp My Desktop

[Stephen Kelly]

Paul J. Adams wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> On Monday 01 Feb 2010 09:36:14 Paul J. Adams wrote:
>> Here is my request: If there is anything that you particularly want me to
>>  say for one of these parts, please let me know before Wednesday. This
>>  will give me plenty of time to prepare the talk.
> 
> Please ensure you let me know today(!) if there is anything you want me to
> talk about at FOSDEM.
> 

I'm not sure what your talk plan is from a high level, but I would like to 
see emphasis on using akonadi/KDE PIM as a platform for new innovative 
development (new applications) and how easy it is to write PIM resources for 
Akonadi and why you would do that.

For the new applications part, a good point is that combining with nepomuk 
allows us to access pim data not based on what type it is, but by what it 
means. That is, we don't need one application for accessing emails and 
another for accessing contacts. We can annotate specific emails and contacts 
and access them based on that annotation. 

For example if you are organizing my birthday party you might want to have 
some interface on your computer showing the contacts who are invited along 
with the email thread about what you're going to get for me (Don't worry, 
it's not until November, you've plenty of time to decide :) ), and the event 
in your calendar.

If you build kde pim with DBUILD_EXAMPLES (I think that's the switch) you 
can get an entitytreemodel demo app. One of the tabs in it gets "your stuff" 
from akonadi organized by nepomuk tags (virtual collections) instead of 
storage location. ie, the pim items are organized by tag instead of by where 
they come from. If you want I can probably send some screenshots of that. I 
should blog about it anyway...

With regard to writing resources, by extension of the above, it is useful to 
have as many resources for as many different data as possible. That way the 
applications and nepomuk can get a better grasp of your data (recalling that 
one point of nepomuk is to give your computer the same understanding of your 
data and its meaning as you do). There's been a few good resources started 
such as facebook, salesforce, google contacts etc. Resources are the best 
extension point of kde pim I think.

Another point which many people find valuable is that as opposed to web 
applications such as google ones (which offer integration of different types 
of pim based on the assumption that you use google apps for all of your 
stuff), you can have multiple repositories of stuff in multiple different 
locations, and your computer (which you control) with nepomuk is the 
integration point, instead of a harvesting web server being the integration 
point.

You'll remember Bernhard talking about privacy management in Osnabruck.
http://dot.kde.org/2010/01/14/annual-osnabrück-pim-meeting-brings-exciting-
announcements-and-ambitious-plans

All the best,

Steve.

> 
> All the best,
> Paul
> 

(Hey! Copycat! :) )

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