For the fourth consecutive year a group of
KDE PIM developers followed the gracious invitation of
Intevation GmbH to meet at their headquarters in Osnabrueck, Germany on the first weekend in January. As in the past years, the face-time proved
very productive especially since everyone felt that with KDE 4 the time for more fundamental changes has come. By the end of the meeting the group had agreed on a vision and initial architecture for a unified, extensible storage service for PIM data and metadata, allowing all applications on the desktop fast and reliable access as well as powerful search capabilities. This service, codenamed '
Akonadi', together with intiatives like
Plasma and
Solid will form the basis of an exciting KDE 4 experience.