[Kde-pim] Kontact Vision

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 18:49:59 Volker Krause wrote:
> as already indicated elsewhere, one of the things we did at Akademy was 
> working on a vision for KDE PIM. Here it is, sorry for the delay:
> 
>   Kontact is a personal information manager for people who care about
>   privacy and have email-based workflows. It enables them to deal with large
> amounts of emails and coordinate teamwork in an effective way.
>     
>   We provide privacy by default and productivity in an elegant package.
>     
>   Unlike proprietary web applications it is Free Software and supports open
>   standards. It gives you full control over your data and enables offline
>   access.
> 
> This should come in handy when deciding what to focus on, which direction
> to  move in, or when creating personas (see Andrew's Akademy talk for the
> background on this).
> 
> I'm mostly a messenger here, thanks to Akonadi Dan, Post-It Kevin and VDG 
> Andrew for driving this, and everybody else who helped, it's actually 
> surprisingly hard to write a few sentences describing what we (want to) do
> 
> I'm quite happy with the result, it nicely covers the areas we have always 
> been looking at more or less implicitly, privacy/crypto,
> productivity/"power  user" features (both with quite good results IMHO),
> and usability (with let's say quite some room for improvement  ). What do
> you think?

I like it, good work. I think it's going to be very useful in the future, and 
I'm also personally happy that my usage profile and priorities are well 
covered in the vision.
-- 
sebas

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