NL-PIM Meeting 2005

The NL-PIM Meeting is a variation on the theme of the Osnabrück Meetings. For the past three years, KDE PIM has held meetings in Osnabrück every January, where the developers of KDE PIM get together at the offices of Intevation GMBH to spend one concentrated weekend of effort in improving KDE PIM -- programming, bugfixing and communicating effectively as only a face- to-face meeting can provide. This year, the KDE NL organization would like to ramp up productivity by scheduling an additional meeting, in the Netherlands, in May. This additional meeting provides a way to evaluate the effects of the Osnabrück meeting, evaluate the latest KDE 3.4 version, and plan KDE PIM efforts leading up to the KDE 4.0 release.

Dates and Times

May 27th to May 29th, 2005, in Annahoeve (Netherlands). We will be using the facilities offered by the convention center Wallsteijn.

The KDE PIM NL meeting is timed to coincide with several conferences in the Netherlands, so that the KDE PIM developers also have venues to discuss their work with people outside the KDE project.

May 26th 2005, NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie on Email and Groupware
May 30th, 31st, Holland Open Software Conference

Participants

The following people have confirmed attending the KDE NL PIM meeting (assuming they are in range; Duncan might still be in Chile at the time).

Cornelius Schumacher (SuSE, Groupware and Coordination)
Will Stephenson (SuSE UK, Instant Messaging)
Duncan Mac Vicar Prett (Instant Messaging)
Daniel Molkentin (Kontact Integration)
Till Adam (KDAB, KMail IMAP support)
Tobias König (KAddressbook, handheld device sync)
Adriaan de Groot (handheld device sync)
Matt Douhan (Hasta AB, groupware)
Benoit Gariod (Zaurus sync)
-- We hope for a few more, from the RSS and Handhelds communities

Topics

The PIM meetings do not normally start with an agenda, but this time we have put together a list of likely topics to work on before hand.

Discoverable interfaces for KOrganizer ; this is an experiment with the user interface for KOrganizer, which has already started in KDE CVS in the lambda_reduce_1 branch.
Palm support in Kitchensync ; existing Palm Pilot support does not make use of the technologies in Kitchensync.
Lots of new Syncees ; Kitchensync's collection of Syncees is still limited, so there are PIM datatypes that can not be synced.
Tenor support (desktop searching and metadata framework) ; this is Scott Wheeler's framework.
Skype (or other VoiP) integration, like KPhone
Resource based instant messaging
revision of KIMIface with access to individual im systems per contact, and different modes of communication per system (voice/video/text)
ongoing work on the MS Exchange plugin