Summer Coding 2010 ideas - Unified Mobile Sync - shortinfo

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Status: Idea

Summary of idea: Synchronization tool for mobile devices. The creation of tool for data synchronization between mobile devices and desktop, such as contacts, calendar, schedule, tasks, messages. Today mobility is a major trend, so enabling synchronization between mobile and desktop is important for Linux desktop adoption.

Contacts: Alexey Vasyukov

Mentor(s): For the moment Alexey Vasyukov

Notes: Proposed features:

• Synchronization of contacts and calendar (required), tasks and messages (desired)
• Support for popular mobile devices, simple extensibility for new gadgets via plugins
• Support for popular desktop applications, simple extensibility for other via plugins
• Simple graphical synchronization tuning tool – what to synchronize, scheduling, rules (filters, conflict resolution, etc.)
• Enabling mobile device backup and restore
• Desirably running not only on Linux, but also on Windows and MacOS (TBD)
• Think about future integration with open source collaboration suites and unified communication systems.