Presence and IntComm WG

[Neal McBurnett <>]

This seems relevant to our interests.

I heard about Galago in a recent Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter:
 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue8

 Galago is a "presence framework" designed to allow easy data access
 about people and their availablity to applications. This includes
 such concepts as when writing an email, you can see if that person is
 online or not, much like GMail does. You can find out more about
 Galago at its website: [WWW] http://www.galago-project.org/about.php

http://www.galago-project.org/about.php

 Galago is a desktop presence framework, designed to transmit presence
 information between programs. To put it in simpler terms, it takes
 information on who is online and their away/idle states from an
 instant messenger (such as gaim) or other similar programs and lets
 other programs (such as Ximian's Evolution) to make use of it.

 The advantage of such a framework is that it brings your programs
 closer together. When you receive an e-mail from a friend who is in
 your buddy list, you'll be able to immediately tell their online
 status, for example.

 Galago is desktop-neutral, and will in time provide easy to use
 widgets for Gtk+ and Qt applications. Currently, Gtk+ widgets are
 available in our Subversion repository under the module name
 libgalago-gtk. Qt widgets will be available in time.

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
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