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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    KDE PIM Roadmap (Call to action)
From:       Mike Pilone <mpilone () slac ! com>
Date:       2001-06-14 0:18:27
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Hello All,

I was recently talking with Greg Stern (of abbrowser conduit fame) about the 
state of KDE PIM. In our discussions, we started to through around some ideas 
of redesigning the entire KDE PIM API.

I spent a few hours the other day brain storming and writing down my ideas. 
Most of these ideas are things I have seen as points of concern for the KDE 
developers.

My ideas are far from complete, but I hope to excite the imagination of the 
current developers. I am aware that some work in this area has already been 
discussed (relayed to me through Greg), and I am interested in collecting all 
of those ideas. I will not pretend to have all the answers, but we have to 
start someplace.

Ideally, I would like to write up the roadmap for KDE PIM, to help guide the 
interested developers in the right direction. If all goes well, this would 
culminate in a PIM developer gathering in late 2001 (September/November 
timeframe). With this preassembled roadmap, the meeting can be a codefest, to 
try out our proposed ideas and quite possibly have a new PIM architecture in 
place, rather than design meetings and methodology arguments.

I think that currently KDE is lagging behind in the PIM area, and I hope to 
contribute not only ideas and guidance, but as much code as possible! This is 
no fault of any one person. The current PIM developers are doing an excellent 
job, and I praise them for their work.

If you are interested in this area of KDE, please take a look at my work in 
progress design overview at http://www.slac.com/~mpilone/kde_pim_api/

I am really interested in feedback from PIM developers, especially those who 
may have already been working on solutions to problems. I want to pull 
everything together so the PIM package, and KDE as a whole, can be as strong 
as possible.

Note: To the dot.kde.org editors. If you have a slow news day in the near 
future, I would appreciate an announcement of this. KDE needs to recruite 
some developers to the PIM package to get it moving even faster.

Thanks for your time. Comments, suggestions, and questions are always welcome 
at mpilone@slac.com.

-mike

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Mike Pilone                                Computer Scientist
mpilone@slac.com       http://www.slac.com/~mpilone/

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