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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: Open Request to KDE and Gnome for plugin support
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-01 0:06:03
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On Friday 01 June 2001 00:52, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I have been in contact with Bynari about this and explained some of
> > the APIs that are already in place. Since the interesting parts of
> > their software are unlikely to become open source I don't expect
> > that many KDE developers will rush out to add support for that.
>
> The original press statement doesn't seem to say much at all.
> Certainly the paraphrase Richard Bos posted seems like a load of hot
> air. So -- from the PIM camp -- I'm pretty skeptical.

Let's see. I'm not that sceptical.

> > It does show that it is important to have an extendable PIM
> > architecture in place and that it is beneficial to have a common
> > interface for those things. But we already knew that of course.
>
> Which makes a call-for-kde-pim-conference maybe more important. It
> seems that a lot of important players are slowly accumulating in
> europe and Dan (Pilone) seems to be willing to come out as well later
> in the summer. This kind of thing needs to be hashed out once and for
> all.

If LinuxTag in July at Stuttgart does not fit, what about the 
LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt (October 30 - November 1) or the Systems 
in Munich (October 15 - 19)?

Who would be interested in joining a kde-pim summit?

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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