On 11-06-09 at 08:32am, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > Hello folks > > one thing I believe is missing from the list is addressbook/calendar > syncing, a different beast than backing up data. Here is the use case > that made me think of this: > > as a user I want to find my friends that use FreedomBox social > capabilities (chat/messaging, voip, blogging, picture sharing > etc) therefore expanding my network. > > I figured that the fist step to find your friend would be to upload > your addressbook to the Freedombox. The software on the box would then > scout the network in order to find your friends. > > This is different than simply backing up the addressbook because of > the next use case: > > as a user I want to have my addressbook updated directly by my > friends with their latest pictures, email addresses and other > data that they decide to share with me though Freedombox > > > The syncing of calendar has similar use cases. If you want I can > elaborate on that too. > > Does this make sense?
Makes very good sense to me. I believe such scenarios are best solved using semweb technologies - i.e. FOAF, WebID and RDF. A few tools in Debian supports semweb already: virtuoso-server samizdat Virtuoso seems too heavyweight in my brief testing. I haven't tried Samizdat but fear it to be too heavyweight also (package description mentions that its RDF backend requires Postgres). I am currently packaging Perl semweb libraries and 4store, a lightweight RDF backend. No shiny user-ready applications on that front yet, however. For those feeling comfortable using PHP, drupal6 also support some RDF. I believe, however, that it provides only building blocks for _presenting_ RDF data, not high-level tools like a WebID service or authentication against a WebID service offered from others. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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