I went and built raindrop just to see what it can do.  I haven't quite
gotten a good grip on it yet.  It seems though that integration with
Zeitgrist might have some advantages.  I don't know what a visual shell and
raindrop would do other than notifications?

sri

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:35 AM, William Jon McCann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Bryan,
>
> Yeah it sounds like we do have similar goals and it would be great to
> be able to work well together.  It seems like the Message Tray may be
> a natural place for our designs to fit together.  While I don't have a
> good idea of what this may mean yet (still digesting the links you
> sent) I wanted to say it sounds like a great idea with a lot of
> potential.
>
> Would like to hear what you and others think.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Bryan Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey -
> >
> > We just announced the release of Raindrop [1] a new messaging system
> we've
> > been working on for a little while now.  I'm announcing to this list
> because
> > I think Raindrop could provide a lot of value to gnome-shell as many of
> the
> > design goals are similar.  It's likely best to read the introduction blog
> > entry [2] and look over the limited code documentation [3] if you're
> > interested but I'll give the 30 second run down here.
> >
> > Raindrop is being designed as a message system specifically for how
> people
> > communicate in today's web environment; i.e. email, mailing lists,
> twitter,
> > etc.  The system itself is a CouchDB daemon service that knows how to
> pull
> > down your email and twitter (process and index them) and then can serve
> them
> > back as JSON objects.  Raindrop includes a built in messaging web
> > application that also gets served from the same place, you'll see demos
> of
> > it in the videos.
> >
> > We only had the chance to do a couple iterations and are working to
> develop
> > some real web apis [4] which could be useful for integration of contacts,
> > messages, and other data Raindrop provides.
> >
> > I'm not suggesting that gnome-shell pulls in Raindrop today and starts
> using
> > it, we are definitely not ready for that.  I am hoping that gnome-shell
> > people will find Raindrop interesting and that we can start looking at
> how
> > we could work with each if it makes sense.
> >
> > Let me know if there are questions.  I still can't seem to run the shell
> > with my thinkpad nvidia card but am looking for another system to try it
> on.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ~ Bryan
> >
> > [1] http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/
> > [2] http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/2009/10/22/introducing-raindrop/
> > [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop
> > [4] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop/WebApis
> > [*] http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/10/22/raindrop/
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