On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I guess my only comment is that while I don't really care which > >interface people use on their phones, it seems like the data interfaces > >should be the same... If I open up qtopia phone edition and look at my > >contacts or maybe even edit them and then close it down and open up my > >OM interface and look at them, they should be the same. All edit are > >visible.. No double entry. > > Agreed, but I'd take it one step further. Given the neo has an > internet connection, why can't PIM data be stored on a web server and > just cached locally. Couldn't you then integrate that into desktop PIM > applications too? > > Ok, so this isn't a new idea. :-) Evolution Data Server supports > integration to groupware backends, but from what I've seen, these are > enterprise-class groupware servers designed for corporations. I can't > seem to find anything designed for the consumer, an > internet-accessible groupware server I can sign up to and store my > contacts in a single place. > > The problem is not local - I'd be surprised if Embedded EDS couldn't > be adapted to store it's data on a server and just use a cached > dataset locally. The problem is that this requires some server > infrastructure and so far I've yet to find something which will do it. > Has anyone else seen this done? >
Interestingly, there was a Google Summer of Code project to write a Google Calendar backend to EDS. See: http://ebbyw.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/google-calendar-evolution/ Regards, Thomas -- OpenedHand Ltd. Unit R Homesdale Business Center / 216-218 Homesdale Road / Bromley / BR1 2QZ / UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8819 6559 Expert Open Source For Consumer Devices - http://o-hand.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
