[Wolfdev-Momentum] Re: another draft

[Kapil Thangavelu]

perhaps of interest,

http://www.logilab.org/vcalsax/

-k

--- Talli Somekh <talli@museatech.net> wrote:
> hey guys,
> 
> as Peter instructed, "release early, release often."
> here's another draft.
> 
> talli
> 
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> pps
> i'll post this to the libical list as well, i just
> hope not to offend or 
> upset anyone as an outsider.
> 
> ----
> The goal of Momentum is very focused: to develop a
> free (as in speech)
> server that can store and serve icalendar, vcalendar
> and vcard data. As
> John Gray mentioned (and admitted that the analogue
> might be too tight),
> Momentum will be to calendaring and scheduling as
> Sendmail is to email.
> 
> Momentum will be designed to maximize deployment
> flexibility. Momentum will 
> be deployed either in the context of a client/server
> model or within a web 
> application or web service model.
> 
> Momentum will provide a standalone server for
> calendaring and scheduling
> using the protocols defined in RFCs 2445, 2446 and
> 2447. It will provide an
> application to store and manipulate iCal, IMIP and
> ITIP data that has been
> stored in a SQL RDBMS.
> 
> Momentum will take advantage of the two years of
> development experience and
> knowledge gathered in the libical project, a C
> library to process iCalendar
> data. It is as of yet unclear what Momentum's
> implementation language will 
> be.
> 
> Momentum will provide a solution for those who seek
> to implement 
> collaborative applications without paying the
> various steep prices of 
> proprietary software. The Momentum Project will
> foster a community of 
> developers who are leading the software world in
> collaboration calendaring 
> and scheduling.
> 
> While many projects in the free software world that
> have addressed iCal, 
> vCal or vCard functionality have over-extended
> themselves by trying to 
> build both a server and a client. Momentum will not
> make this mistake 
> because we will focus entirely on providing
> developers with an application 
> that is agnostic to the client.
> 
> Momentum will be a server with a tight and focused
> API. Momentum's API will 
> provide developers of client applications the
> ability to interface with 
> Momentum either through direct interaction with the
> API or by using a 
> higher level scripting language to process iCal,
> vCal or vCard data served 
> by Momentum. In addition, Momentum will have APIs
> for new and popular 
> protocols such as XML-RPC, SOAP and WebDAV.
> ----
> 
> 
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