[Kde-pim] Google Summer of Code project idea: integrating KDEPIM with Nepomuk:PIMO

[Marcus Harrison]

On Sunday 11 March 2012 20:27:16 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 18:06, Marcus Harrison 
> <marcus at harrisonland.co.uk>wrote:
> > My understanding from Martin's blog post [1] is that PIMO:Person is
> > basically finished (very nearly almost), but isn't being used to its full
> > potential (or in any applications at all). I'd like to work on making 
> > KDEPIM and potentially other applications do cool things with it: a few 
> > immediate examples include attaching E-mail attachments (and E-mails) to 
> > people, making it possible to tag images (and other files?) with people, 
> > and making KAddressBook able to both edit and display all this information 
> > in a nice way. Of course, where PIMO:Person falls short, I'd be interested 
> > in helping make it usable as well.
> 
> Just to set things straight - PIMO:person is an ontology [1] and as such
> was finished long time ago. To make use of this ontology conveniently, a
> library is needed on top of it. This is currently "kpeople" library, which
> is somewhat working for basic stuff like displaying people, but still needs
> some heavy work to be fully in a state where it can be used for production
> use. Unfortunately I have now _very_ limited time to work on it :/ If you
> don`t want to reinvent the wheel, kpeople needs to be finished first, only
> then it can be really used for the cool things you`re proposing (and I`d
> love to see them too someday ;)
> 
> > > > If it's not feasible for a GSoC project, I would still like to work on 
> > > > this as some point, and a starting point would be nice to have. I 
> > > > already have a KDE development environment set up and working, so I 
> > > > could start working on programming right away.
> > > 
> > > CC'ing Martin, he's the one with the best overview on that topic.
> > 
> > Thanks! :)
> 
> If you are serious about starting now, I can give you a "todo" list, what
> needs to be done to make the library really usable. I reckon it shouldn`t
> be more than two-three weeks of work.
> 
> [1] - http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/pimo/

Thanks! Feel free to send me that TODO list -- would be nice if I could get a 
bit of a head start, even if it's only learning the codebase. :)

Marcus Harrison
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