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--[[User:Imr|Imr]] 14:54, 14 July 2006 (EDT)
--[[User:Imr|Imr]] 14:54, 14 July 2006 (EDT)

[[CATEGORY:Software Ideas]]

Revision as of 18:56, 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 and Contacts... voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the [Speex] codec.

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

Bits and Pieces:

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)