On Tue Jan 23 05:45:30 2007, Quim Gil wrote:
Important tip to those contacting us aiming to get a discount code
in
the final wave: the less we know you the more you should explain.
The
final wave is primarily for recovering contact details of
contributors
that we imperfect humans have missed.
Hmmm. I'm not terribly good at self-publicity, and I really don't
enjoy this sort of thing, but I'll see what I can do to persuade the
Nokians:
1) Who am I?
Dave Cridland. Contact details, homepages, etc, in my signature.
2) How do I meet the criteria?
I'm a specialist in low-bandwidth, high-latency, email access using
open standards. What this means in practise is that I've been heavily
involved in the IETF effort known as Lemonade, which is aimed at
providing a solid platform for mobile email by extending existing
email standards. The current version is documented in RFC4550, and
you'll see my name in the Acknowledgements section. Lemonade includes
things like "push email", and the ability to selectively forward
messages and attachments without downloading them, known as "forward
without download".
I currently edit a handful of drafts associated with the next phase
of Lemonade (known as profile bis), including the new version of the
profile itself. I'm also working on an extension to allow
bandwidth-efficient access to potentially large sorted and filtered
views of the mailbox, known as contexts (draft-cridland-imap-context
for Googlers), and RFC4731, co-authored by me, provides a
bandwidth-efficient mechanism for static searches.
I'm also (much less) active within the XMPP community. An off-hand
comment of mine caused the registration of a URN for namespacing new
XML elements in XMPP, and I've been involved in XEP-0198, too, which
is pretty relevant to XMPP on the Maemo platform.
My work life is as an internet messaging engineer at Isode -
http://www.isode.com/ - a small London company that's been key in the
development of a few things you might have heard of, such as LDAP.
My personal, open-source, projects are detailed at
http://trac.dave.cridland.net/ and are:
a) Polymer, which was the first IMAP client to take full advantage of
Lemonade, and runs on desktop computers. This is written in Python,
using wxPython. It is used by several IMAP server vendors to test
their support for the latest developments in internet mail. I'm not
porting this to Maemo, as such...
b) Telomer, which is a work-in-progress, and is a reworked UI to
bring Lemonade to Maemo, and is the first client to take Lemonade
onto a mobile device. This is again written in Python, this time with
pyGTK, and I'm trying to design the UI specifically to make best use
of the screen area, so it looks very different to Polymer.
c) The IPL, or Infotrope Python Library, which does the IMAP, ESMTP,
ACAP, and even XMPP support for the above. (It can also post articles
to NNTP). It includes a full SASL implementation for robust security,
and runs to a limited degree on my 7610. This runs already on Maemo.
d) IAS, or the Infotrope ACAP Server, which provides full RFC2244
ACAP services for remote configuration and roaming services,
typically to email clients such as Eudora, Mulberry, and of course
Polymer and Telomer. It's written in C++. And no, this one won't get
ported to Maemo, it's just relevant technology. I run a "free" ACAP
service, so anyone can get an account easily.
e) I recently started collecting patches to update the pyOpenSSL
library, and added in functionality including support for TLS-based
compression and Python file-protocol object support. This could be
ported (read: recompiled) to Maemo, but the 770 at least uses OpenSSL
0.9.7, which - lacking compression - makes it rather less interesting
to do. (But let me know if you want this).
I personally think that the 770 and N800 could quite easily provide
an excellent end-user experience for email - they have much better
capabilities than a simple mobile phone, and yet can still be easily
carried. Given the general state of the mobile email market, a
powerful marketing story on the Internet Tablets as mobile email
devices would surely be in Nokia's best interests. Nokia themselves
are involved in the Lemonade effort, of course, and at least some
people in Tampere are quite well aware of Polymer and my work.
I'm not entirely sure I qualify here - yes, I'm actively porting code
to Maemo, and yes, I'm actively creating new code for Maemo - you
don't have a criterion of "people heavily involved in open standards
areas of relevance to Maemo", though.
If I did get a discount code, I'd keep my 770. It'd mean I could aim
to get Telomer fast enough on the 770, in which case I'd enjoy it
whizzing along on the N800 (possibly - much of the slowdown is
currently related to filesystem accesses and UI issues. Given a puny
40,000 message mailbox, pyGTK wants to iterate through the list for
no good reason. Pah.).
Most importantly of all, I'd finally stop my two kids fighting over
who gets to do Tux Paint. :-)
Dave.
--
Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/
- http://dave.cridland.net/
Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade
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