[Kde-pim] Advertising Akonadi to developers and geeks

[Thomas Koch]

During the KDE-PIM spring meeting 2012 in Osnabrück, Bernhard said that you 
should not talk about Akonadi to end users. - This might be right.

But given my dissappointing experience with 4.10.2 so far, I'd like to ask you 
to rethink this policy with regard to power users and developers.

At the same meeting, I asked whether there is some kind of commandline or 
scriptable interface to Akonadi. The answer was that I should not want this. 
period.

I'm still convinced about the general idea of having a daemon process doing 
the synchronisation and client apps that don't need to understand each and 
every protocol.

I believe that Akonadi would really benefit if more people would write clients 
using Akonadi. But googling for Akonadi only reveals rather old or more 
general pages about Akonadi, - or rants about akonadi and explanations how to 
disable this "resource hog".

So people are talking (writing) about Akonadi anyways (google for it!) but not 
at all in a good way. You might rather start talking about it instead of 
leaving the first google ranks to rants.

I discovered the akonadi console this week by accident (was searching for 
akonadi tray). You really impressed me with such a sophisticated debugging 
tool.

I've found the Akonadi API documentation and the Techbase site 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi

I'd like to encourage you to also target people that might be interested to 
use Akonadi directly for their own projects without developing Akonadi itself. 
There is not much documentation for this audience nor blogposts or conference 
talks.

Regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
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