Re: [Columba-devel] calendar/chat prototypes and future directions

[Frederik D. <ma...@fr...>]

>
> For me as a Uni student, my life is driven by my Calendar and Tasks / TODO
> list in my Palm palmtop. Of course, this is largely only a one person
> setup.
> At Uni they have just introduced the Sun Messenger Express and also Sun
> Webmail stuff I think (Only went online on Sunday week ago and I haven't
> played much with it yet.)
>
> I see it uses VCards and I see Calendars mentioned but I haven't been into
> that yet. Faculty use Lotus Notes stuff.
>
> I have tried using KDE PIM / Kontact stuff but I could never get sync
> working
> properly in 3.4.3. Haven't tried using 3.5.1 which I only installed a few
> weeks ago and haven't fully got sorted out yet.
>
> If it could correctly interact with JPilotlink / JPim stuff it would be
> great.
>

I guess syncing your data with other devices and offline modes are getting
more and more important these days. Especially, syncing should be much
simpler for Java apps these days when using sync4j. Just noticed that it
was renamed to funambol:
http://www.funambol.com/opensource/

Here's the developer guide:
http://download.forge.objectweb.org/sync4j/sync4j_syncclient_API_J2SE_developer_guide-2.2.pdf

We should add an extra section on our wiki page for that topic!


>> Here are my thoughts on this:
>> 1. I don't like the term "groupware". I'd rather go with something like
>> collaboration suite or PIM. Its a tool which lets people collaborate.
>
> I don't care what you call it as long as it works ;-)
>

:-)

Cheers,
-Frederik