Re: Gnomecal standards target

[rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:11:00 PDT, doctor jest wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Russell Steinthal wrote:
>
>> Well, I see three ways of proceeding, at this point:
>
>take a look at http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical/ before
>you start writing a new ical library .. ical is a very
>complicated data format, and there is a lot of domain
>knowledge that's gone into the design of that library. not
>that its necessarily the be-all and end-all, but its
>definitely at least a starting point.
>
>personally im very interested in seeing full icap and imip
>support in the gnome groupware products in the near term.
>ive recently had to fall back to outlook in order to get
>integrated todo, journal, event management and (really
>limited) freebusy and group scheduling. im really unhappy
>about that. in the long term of course, it would be well to
>add support for irip and cap, as those standards stabilize.
>which begs the question - how do you plan to make these
>services available to the entire gnome architecture (with
>which im not yet fully familiar)? is there any type of
>standard outgoing mail service for gnome (other than opening
>a pipe to sendmail)?
>
>im hoping to be able to dig in and help at the code level,
>but my time is really almost fully booked through the end of
>the year. still i hope that i can bring some amount of
>architecture and design experience to the groupware effort
>since its to a large extent parallel to things that im doing
>at work.
>
>
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Russell Steinthal		Columbia Law School, Class of 2002
<rms39@columbia.edu>		Columbia College, Class of 1999
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