[maemo-developers] Beta testing a simple communication package

[From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

Sounds interesting!

2009/1/17, Cedric Cellier <rixed at happyleptic.org>:
> -[ Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:02:17PM +0000, Andrew Flegg ]----
>> How does it relate to Telepathy, Conduit and OpenSync; if at all?
>
> It's independant on anything. I didn't knew Conduit nor OpenSync, but
> considered Kolab before rejecting it because of being too complex.
> I needed something dead simple so that I could easily add anything
> that pops up in my mind : list manager, project management, instant
> messaging,
> video conferencing, geolocalization sharing, or anything new one need.
>
> To achieve this, I had to throw out of the client compatibility with
> external protocols - while Telepathy, for instance, is more an abstract
> layer above them. When compatibility to other protocols is required,
> it's implemented on a central server as a gateway. Needing a central
> server is really the price to pay here, but it also much simpler than
> multi-host peer to peer synchronisation, and offer some possibilities
> (like, say, archiving voice calls for free).
>
> I know that one should try to reuse existing software before starting
> adding his own pile of stuff to the enormous stock of bad code that
> already exist out there. I just couldn't resist :-)
>
>> > So if you are interrested by unified communication and/or cloud
>> > computing
>> > (sorry for so many buzwords), curious or just plain masochist, and are
>> > able to
>> > ssh you way through your tablet's file system, please drop me a note.
>>
>> Definitely.
>
> Thank you. I will let you know where and when the software is
> debianized.
>
>
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