[Kde-pim] [kde-promo] Akonadi questionez

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Vivek Prakash <vivek.ap at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For the beta1 announcement, I'm using the following as to why akonadi is interesting:
>>
>> "Akonadi will centralize synching and caching of PIM data, deliver wider support for
>> groupware servers and makes handling PIM data, such as contacts, calendaring and
>> email more efficient by sharing it across applications."
>>
>> Let's see how this fares. (It goes along with the "akonadi ports coming later"
>> message, so definitely interesting.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> sebas
>>
> I've tried to summarize a couple of benefits, as I understand them, in
> straightforward language.
>
> Essentially, Akonadi is a framework that can understand and use email,
> calendaring and contact information from different sources.  One
> benefit of this structure is that Akonadi can reduce system overheads
> - open up an address book once and share it across applications rather
> than each application opening up the same address book many times.
>
> Another benefit is relatively easy coordination of data on different
> devices - making it easy to share, backup, and synchronize between
> your computer, phone, and the internet.  For example, Akonadi can
> already synchronize with Nokia's phone calendars, and can access
> Gmail's contacts and Google Calendar, although those options are
> currently less evolved.

Thanks all for your input. Feel free to check out the result:
http://community.kde.org/Promo/Strategy/Akonadi

>
> Source (phone reference):
> http://primalcortex.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/kmailkorganizer-and-nokia-phone-synchronization/
>
> I don't know if that helps - I'm not a programmer/developer - but
> those two seem like good, useful benefits.
>
> Regards,
> Vivek
>
> ps.  I'm CC'ing kde-pim on this reply-all, but I'm not on that mailing
> list so the email may get held up - obviously their comments would be
> very useful.
>
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