Hi! I am currently in the process of making Akunambol a plugin based application, to enable KDE (starting from Plasma) to benefit from a syncing framework.
This would not only mean syncing stuff via SyncML, even if SyncML is certainly a big player. Just to start, I'd like to make a couple of usually misunderstood things clear: - Akunambol is NOT a PIM application. Or at least, it is not going to be. It is actually not even going to be (just) an application. :) - SyncML is a completely mimetype agnostic protocol. It could sync everything, including stuff like files, or random binary data. It is not even limited to mobile platforms (e.g. sync via bluetooth) - actually - Ubuntu One is built on top of it. With it we could do stuff like simple file syncing (ala dropbox/ubuntu one) or more complex things, like configuration syncing, sharing data, backups of random things (nepomuk metadata?)... SyncML usually needs a centralized server. ownCloud seems like the best point where we can work on this. I have talked with one of ownCloud developers one month ago or such (can't remember the name :/), and, some time before, with Frank too. They both seemed to think that this was a terrific idea. :) So, what I propose would be something like: - having a SyncML implementation on ownCloud: - using one of the many SyncML PHP libraries where it's the only thing we support. - using funambol wherever we have a shell access (it's an awesome AGPLv3 app, unfortunately written in java). This would open up collaboration from some funambol guys that could help us in their free time, who have already shown much interest. - using akunambol or any other local application that supports the SyncML protocol to perform the actual sync. This would include allowing to sync directly to mobile phones or other devices (via http/syncml). Soo... what do you people think? I've tried to keep this email as short as possible to ensure everybody could easily get to the end of it, but I think it already reflects the immense possibilities that we have. :) I had to schedule an IRC meeting in November to discuss this, but got a bit caught up with school - do you think it could be worthwhile to do it now- soonish? Bye, -Riccardo
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