Hello, :: Jonas Smedegaard Donnerstag 09 Juni 2011 > I believe such scenarios are best solved using semweb technologies - > i.e. FOAF, WebID and RDF. [...] > No shiny user-ready applications on that front yet, however.
Indeed, however several people are already aware of this issue and work on such "social (network) synchronisation" tools. Here's a related minddump^Wconcept which I recently came up with after gathering the input from two workshops in this area. Its aim is to have integration of contacts, events, pictures etc. from the network all the way up into the user's desktop (and back again if desired). Therefore it includes commonly-used PIM-related file formats in addition to some fancy semantic formats: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ocs/attachments/20110608/856bf49a/attachment-0001.png This is a nice isolated topic which is of benefit to the freedombox but not necessarily in all of its aspects exclusive to it. Therefore, if more people are interested in "social sync", I recommend taking the development parts of it off the main mailing list to some other place. At least the building blocks for free desktops and free mobile platforms are already developed and packaged, so having a working solution in the given timeframe appears to be realistic. The topic is also somewhat overlapping, but still complementary to the trend of running services as decentralised inter-communication nodes in terms of data souvereignty. How much the overlap and the mutual benefit is still needs to be found out, of course. Josef _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss