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Google have a new project under development. In their presentaion (wave.google.com) they say they asked themselves "how would you design email if you started the design from scratch today?".

What they have is going to be open standard and basic implementaiton is freely available. It sort of like a cross between InstantMessanger & E-Mail with live co-operative editing throuwn in. I think KDE should have integration with Akonadi and a client for this. It would be a hug fether in our cap if KDE was first to have this feature built in default.

If you get the chance watch the video presentation it's a hour long but even if you just skim through it you'll get the idea of how much of a revolution it could become and since it's going to be open standard you wont have to be tied to Google to use it.:-P

Rms-Mit wrote:how much of a revolution it could become and since it's going to be open standard you wont have to be tied to Google to use it.:-P

Thanks for posting, I agree.

This IS an exciting area that the social tools on the net are driving... late in 2007 the data portability group emerged and in 2008 various ideas such as OpenSocial started to take shape regarding interoperability via social network APIs.

Another project I feel is worth attention that complements these initiatives / functionality is the liberty project for identity & trust: http://www.projectliberty.org

Finding a way to work with local and remote semantic data that has a workable permission and ID framework is one of the challenges facing us, creating functionality that will integrate with the gwave project is a good step in that direction.

Some interesting thoughts over at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/3004/23/5/3 if you fancy seeing things from a socio-political EU angle about the same kind of stuff.

This is a great idea, I would very much like a client for Wave. Because of its IM-email nature, I don't think either Kopete or KMail is the right app for this, so there will have to be yet another Kontact plugin.

I'd be willing to offer some help if needed, although I have little experience with XMMP messaging.

I would not like to - simply because I think Google is getting way to mighty.

@fary agreed

We should use really free and open services like Jabber, POP, identi.ca and Freedesktop.

The User wrote:@fary agreed

We should use really free and open services like Jabber, POP, identi.ca and Freedesktop.

... except the Google Wave protocol is free and opensource too

a few questions:
- what about license?
- why should kde "promote" the program from a "company"?

vote? -1

Mamonetti wrote:a few questions:
- what about license?
- why should kde "promote" the program from a "company"?

vote? -1

- It's Apache License 2.0
- So what? Qt is a product from a "company", but KDE uses it because it's good.

Protocol != Implementation.
For POP and Freedesktop there are free implementations for client and server and there is an open protocol.

The User wrote:Protocol != Implementation.
For POP and Freedesktop there are free implementations for client and server and there is an open protocol.

Well, that's what this brainstorm is about - we need a implementation for this open protocol.

As I wrote in the duplicate idea (brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=82574#anchormain), not only the protocol is open, but the implementation of the Wave server by Google will be open-sourced.
Apparently the protocol to synchronize wave servers is complicated (http://www.waveprotocol.org/presentations). So it is perhaps not very usefull to reimplement a Wave server.
But the server client from Google is a web-interface and is directly tied to the Wave server provider. So it would be usefull to have a Wave client implementation for Kde

Well, sounds good. Could anybody say wha it would be awesome to have this in Akonadi?

This idea is now on bugs.kde.org :
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212840