Re: Using Tinymail for exposing a folder through DBUS

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:42 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote:

> I needed this for a research-oriented project I am working on with a
> couple of last year students. 

In case your university is interested in participating int he Summer Of
Code 2007, of Google, it's possible that a project based on tinymail or
that does something interesting with tinymail would be accepted.

Some examples: some user interfaces for, for example, ePaper displays
(iRex, Polymer Vision, etc), For the One Laptop Per Child project, for
mobile phones, ...  Or integration with other applications like, indeed
Gimmie or Tomboy. With other frameworks like Telepathy and Galago (VoIP
and Presence).

E-mail as a service, would be another good research subject for which
the tinymail design could be made suitable (or, already is, since
everything is an interface .. you can use remote proxy for this).

I of course have plenty of non-research ideas too. Things that are
really to do (and often are this subjects that certain companies are
actually willing to pay for, though I can't easily give you a list on
that here).

Most of the subjects aren't really doable in less than 7 days.

ps. I'm not very interested in mentoring students that, for example,
only want to think about "how a MUA user interface would look like". No,
the student would have to "implement" that user interface too :)

    -- Just an example of course.


> We were trying to build something like
> Gimmie [2], but extend it beyond digital information (we want to use
> information from physical objects as well). We already use D-Bus to
> connect to applications like Tomboy or Gaim. We still needed an email
> application to provide us with a list of emails that were tagged with a
> certain label or were put into a certain folder. 
> 
> Unfortunately we don't have a lot of time to spare (about 7 full days
> with 3 students), which is why we will probably just use GMail :-s If
> there's some time left, we might have another look at Tinymail as an
> alternative email source for our system.
> 
> Or maybe when I have some spare time myself, who knows ... :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> [1] http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://beatnik.infogami.com/Gimmie
> 
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