Some of the broad ideas are shared with the People Project (mainly aggregating people from multiple types of back-ends), but the project seems to be abandoned.
The Last Modified column on this page sort of sums it up: https://code.launchpad.net/people-project -Travis On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 08:28 +0200, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > My though: this is a really good idea to bring such feature. Nowadays, > computer become more and more a simple terminal to connect our > 'virtual' ssocial network. So, an aggregator for address-book is > really usefull. > > One question: do you base your work on the people-project? > https://launchpad.net/people-project > > 2010/4/22 Travis Reitter <[email protected]>: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm working on a high-level library, named libtelepathy-people, to make > > people-based applications a lot easier to write. > > > > The general idea is there will be a number of back-ends (initially > > Telepathy connection managers, but eventually other types of storage, > > like Evolution Data Server, Facebook, what-have-you) and > > Telepathy-People will assemble and notify about full people (made up of > > metadata from one or more sources). These people objects > > (Tpp.Individuals) will give applications easy access to peoples' > > metadata and make it easy to communicate with them. > > > > I've written up an early, high-level overview here (with links to the > > current source): > > > > http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Telepathy-People > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > -Travis > > > > _______________________________________________ > > telepathy mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy > > > > > _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
