Workshops & BoFs/2011/Working with PIM data

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This is a proposed workshop for the DesktopSummit 2011

See all proposed sessions, or the Workshops & BoFs webpage for more information.

Title

Working with PIM data outside of PIM apps

Description

PIM data such as contacts, events, TODOs, emails, journals, notes and so on have traditionally been handled by applications which also provided the user interface for the respective data type.

Developers of other applications either had to interoperate through application specific D-Bus interfaces or with the actual data backend, making it either necessary to run an additional application the user might not be using for the respective task or implementing file formats or even domain specific server access protocols.

Advances in user session infrastructure over the last couple of years now allows also non-PIM application developers to work with such data on a service basis, potentially even re-using UI components formerly created for PIM apps but now available in tool libraries.

One example of such a use case could be creating an invoice as a PDF, attaching it to an email and sending it, creating a reminder event in the user's calendar to check accounts on due date.

Hosts

  • Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
  • Volker Krause <vkrause@kde.org>

Format

training/teaching session

Duration

2 hours

Expected number of participants

Around 50, no hard limit

Participants

No registration required. Interested people can (but don't have to ) contact the hosts with details on their specific use case before the event.

Additional requirements

Projector and ideally a whiteboard/flipchart/blackboard of some kind

This area is free to use for anything you wish! Discuss the planned contents, provide links to relevant resources, or whatever