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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] In need for name of a project
From:       "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <kossebau () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-01-26 12:07:11
Message-ID: 200701261307.11837.kossebau () kde ! org
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Am Freitag, 26. Januar 2007 02:27, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:15, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > The project is about modelling persons and groups/projects. Or "about the
> > things you know about people and their extended virtual personas.", like
> > de
> 
> is there a "social networking" aspect to this, such that one can create
> relationships between people (groups?) and record various types of
> information?

On my sketch is that there can be links between persons, and persons and 
groups, and groups and groups, so yes. But I have only a few use cases, like 
modelling the relationship in a company, so I could enter t

> for that matter can someone push their persona out to other 
> people's models much as we exchange contact information with vCards today?

At last aKademy Torsten Rahn proposed in a discussion to just drop KABC 
resources and import the addressbook directly from Xing/openBC. Not something 
I personally would advocate, after all ones contact data is/can be sensitive. 
Same with binding to single providers, perhaps an P2P approach is the better 
idea anyway. Or both.

But yes, it is be an interesting idea. I hope that the aspect of synchronizing 
ones data (partially) with other databases is orthogonal to the modelling and 
can be done later/by some who want this :)

> (these are questions that would affect my thinking on the name =)

The project will be open for this, but I personally don't have it on my oh so 
stuffed already agenda. 

Friedrich
 
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