Re: [Evolution-hackers] Contact vcards

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 17:24, C.J. Collier wrote:
> Is there anything that would keep us from adding some fields to vcards? 
> Wouldn't it be good if each person could add skills/experience/pay rate
> to their vcards?  That way, if you've got a bunch of friends who give
> you vcards with their skill set and you're interested in starting a Free
> Software project, but you don't have 90 hours in a day, you can search
> your contacts folder for people who have the skills you need.
> 
> Moreover, these data should not be stored in a flat file accessible
> easily only by Evolution.  Take advantage of Gnome-db and make the data
> publicly available.  On the local system if not on LDAP.  Duplication of
> data == ick.
> 
Evolution already has an API for external apps to access the data.

cheers