Next Friday there is the start of a long weekend hacking on Akonadi. As it is the easter weekend, we can all begin a day early and stay a day longer without having to take to much days off from work.

It will be a small group of developers: Kevin Krammer, Thomas McGuire, Till Adam, Tobias Koenig, Volker Krause, Frode Doeving, Cornelius Schumacher and me. It will be the first time Frode (the co-author of Mailody) and me will meet, and I’m happy that he’s able to fly to Berlin (thanks to the KDE e.V. and his girlfriend).

The meeting is at the KDAB office in Berlin, I’m looking forward to the weekend and Berlin. I’ve been there in 2002, it was freezing, but beautiful. I hope we’ll have some time to see Berlin at least a bit.

We will focus on getting the last things done on Akonadi, so it will be mostly ready for the KDE 4.1 release. Last weeks I’ve been working hard on the IMAP resource for Akonadi and beating Mailody in shape as well. I’m pretty confident Mailody can release around the time of 4.1.0 to show the possibilities of Akonadi (so it has to be good when we release something), and have a mail client based on Qt4/KDE4 would be nice as well.

When we are there, I want to discuss things about Mailody with Frode. Also we are still trying to share as much as possible with KMail and KNode, for example a KCM for identities, composer and a shared outbox, based on Akonadi, Mailtransport and KMime. Those things need drawings on blackboards. Still something difficult to arrange on IRC.