18 November 2003

Gave a talk at Sloan this morning.

Currently there are 118 people registered for the Brooklyn GNOME Summit. If you plan on coming, you should add a note to the Wiki. If you’re not planning on coming, you should reconsider!

Our office has been overrun with adorable monkey antics lately.

There was a brief bout of dashboard-related activity today. Maybe it’ll pick up again.

Also, I am very excited to see the evolution-sharp module from Mike Kestner in CVS now. Having good C# bindings for the Evolution addressbook and calendar is going to make accessing that backend data much easier. It would have been a big help this summer on the dashboard work.

Overall I think there’s a lot of exciting stuff coming in Evolution 2.0. Here’s a very non-exhaustive list:

• Split of Evolution’s backends into the evolution-data-server module.
• Much simpler APIs for getting at the user’s personal data, for the addressbook (C, C#) and calendar.
• Full HIG compliance.
• Split of the various components (mailer, addressbook, calendar) such that they can eventually be run as separate apps, and not only in an Outlook-like shell.
• S/MIME support
• Support for viewing calendars stored on the web.

And, hopefully, substantially more integration with the rest of the desktop.

Stay tuned for more news on that later this week…