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'''Offering Email through the Laptops''' |
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OLPC intern [[http://www.akbars.net/blog Imran Akbar]] is working on a prototype email client written in Python. It will initially utilize existing POP/IMAP servers to store messages, and use a keyserver for [[http://www.gnupg.org/ GPG]] encryption and zlib compression built-in. The GUI interface will be simpler, with three tabs on the left: Mail and |
OLPC intern [[http://www.akbars.net/blog Imran Akbar]] is working on a prototype email client written in Python. It will initially utilize existing POP/IMAP servers to store messages, and use a keyserver for [[http://www.gnupg.org/ GPG]] encryption and [[http://www.zlib.net zlib]] compression built-in. The GUI interface will be simpler, with three tabs on the left: Mail, Contacts, and maybe History. Voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the [[http://www.speex.org Speex]] codec (recording and playing back of voice messages). |
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Other ideas: |
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* presence - location & local time, through a P2P layer such as [[http://thecircle.org.au/involved.html the Circle]] |
* presence - location & local time, through a P2P layer such as [[http://thecircle.org.au/involved.html the Circle]] |
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* global address book |
* global address book |
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* ditching the Re: and Fw: conventions, and moving them to the headers instead, along with hashes for each conversation so they can be properly threaded |
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Bits and Pieces: |
Bits and Pieces: |
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* [[http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/ pyaudio]] |
* [[http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/ pyaudio]] |
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More thoughts on why email still sucks: |
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http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are-reinventing-mail.html |
http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are-reinventing-mail.html |
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Revision as of 19:04, 14 July 2006
Offering Email through the Laptops
OLPC intern [Imran Akbar] is working on a prototype email client written in Python. It will initially utilize existing POP/IMAP servers to store messages, and use a keyserver for [GPG] encryption and [zlib] compression built-in. The GUI interface will be simpler, with three tabs on the left: Mail, Contacts, and maybe History. Voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the [Speex] codec (recording and playing back of voice messages).
Other ideas:
- captchas and [hashcash] to eliminate spam
- casy mailing-list creation
- tags
- presence - location & local time, through a P2P layer such as [the Circle]
- global address book
- ditching the Re: and Fw: conventions, and moving them to the headers instead, along with hashes for each conversation so they can be properly threaded
Bits and Pieces:
More thoughts on why email still sucks: http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are-reinventing-mail.html
Generous thanks to [Wingware] for their great IDE for Python.
--Imr 14:54, 14 July 2006 (EDT)