Hi, I'm one of the developers of Multisync, a free modular program to synchronize calendars, addressbooks and other PIM data between programs, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. I contacted you since you are either a developer of a synchronization application or write conduits for these programs.
We recently ran into design limitations with our current Multisync version, which was where we decided to develop a new major version of Multisync. We started working on the new design but quickly noticed to there are a lot of other projects in this field too. There are: coldsync, gpilot, kpilot, agsync, j-pilot, malsync, multisync, kitchensync, pilot-manager, pilot-mailsync and even more. There is a lot of redundant code and a lot of work is wasted by rewriting what already exists in another project. So i would like to propose to start a project to create a standardized sync framework which could then be used by all projects. This way a sync conduit would have to be written only once and would immediately be available to all projects. The idea is similar the the Netscape API (NAPI) which provides plugins to netscape, mozilla and opera. Thats why i started the project "OpenSync" on freedesktop.org and i would like to invite you to join the mailing list to discuss if this idea is feasible and possible to implement and what requirements we have to meet to make it a success. If you would like to join, go to opensync.freedesktop.org and follow the link to the mailing list at the bottom. Even if you think that this is a stupid idea i would like to hear why. I really think that it is worth to pursue this project since we can reduce redundant code in the sync projects, easy the life for the developers of conduits and give a great possibility to programs that which to use synchronization like Evolution to get access to a lot of devices to sync. Best regards, Armin Bauer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Multisync-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/multisync-devel