kde-pim dev needed, for a sponsored open source effort, to remove akonadi

[René J.V. Bertin]

Great initiative, and I'd certainly have offered my services if I had the required experience to work (for money) on this kind of project. Getting rid of akonadi could also tackle a long-standing gripe I have with the whole architecture: the fact you never really know if you're really disconnected from your email when you quit Kontact/KMail.

One thing that kept nagging me when reading the page Pable linked to: but why we need such extensive database functionality that there's so much opportunity to optimise things?

BTW, if somehow this fits with your plans/ideas, consider reintroducing support for WebKit too, which ought to suffice amply for the kind of HTML rendering required in PIM (= not a full-blown browser), is smaller on disk and in memory, and generally a lot faster (almost 1.5x in my experience).

Cheers!
R.