[desktop-discuss] [Fwd: "community applet" idea]

[Iain Curtain]

Have you guys seen Spicebird?  its a new integrated collaboration tool
based on thunderbird.

No Solaris port yet ;-)



On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:47 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008 9:02 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Trying to clear out my inbox, and thought that this was a nice little project
> > for someone (if I haven't sent it already). We've talked about this a little bit
> > with respect to Indiana, and how to encourage a sense of 'community', or start
> > off a viral effect. Think social networks to celebrate the use of OpenSolaris,
> > and encourage other people to try it out.
> 
> This seems like a great idea.
> 
> However, I'm a little torn about how to implement it.
> 
> It almost seems like it should be a Pidgin plugin to take advantage of
> Pidgin's account management, IRC support, etc.
> 
> Pidgin could provide the IRC functionality.
> 
> FireFox the RSS piece.
> 
> The notifier for new builds could be done through an RSS feed (makes
> the most sense too).
> 
> Report a bug could be a native interface that used XML-rpc to feed the
> bug into defect.opensolaris.org with easy links to "bugs you've
> filed", etc.
> 
> Get help now could offer forum and IRC link.
> 
> Lots of possibilities here.