Friday was arrival day for most of the pim-people. Once everyone was in, we started with a demonstration about Lionmail from Sebas. Basically that is a plasma applet showing mails in Akonadi. So after KMail we now have Mailody and Lionmail. Sebas shared his experience in building it and it is great to see Akonadi being flexible enough to be able to create new mail applications quickly. Although a full blown mail client requires a lot of effort, I think in the future we will see some more new mail clients which are maybe specialized for some specific task or way to operate.

After that the RSS/Akregator people explained their current problems and difficulties. You can read more about that on the Techbase page. After that I recall we had some discussion about points Stephen has brought up.

It was actually at this meeting I got to understand that the model Stephen is working on is a really cool model. It is able to merge collections and items into one model, which he needs for porting KJots to Akonadi. But it is also has lots of stuff for lazy loading. So if you have a folder with 1000 subfolders, it will only load these in the tree when you expand the main folder. There has been going a lot of time into this model. Probably not the most rewarding job as it is not very visible for the average user.

On saterday there was plenty of room for hacking. People starting working simultaneously working on a pop3, mbox and the imap-resource. Which gave a competition like atmosphere where people were betting on who would be first to show the mails. You can imagen it is extremely productive when this happens all at the same time.

After that we discussed the state of the ports for KAddressBook (or actually its successor KContactManager) and KOrganizer. Both are planned for KDE 4.3.0, which starts freezing pretty soonish, so we have to hurry a bit to reach that deadline. Luckily KDAB will support this port with some more resources, so it should be possible.

Later that evening some Trolls came by to say hi and play some table soccer. I’m pretty sure the PIM people won ;-). Although Danimo won convincing from me in a one to one battle. I realized I’ve missed doing it. Last time was probably 15 years ago, when I still studied. Now we get a bigger office, it is worth considering it ;-)