In this file:

* What you find here
* What it is
* Mailing List, Getting involved

What you find here
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Anything relating to the KDE-PIM project. See also http://pim.kde.org.

The KDE-PIM project aims to bring together those who wish to help design,
implement, test, etc. anything that's to do with personal information
management.

This rather broad scope encompasses mail clients, addressbooks, usenet news,
scheduling and even sticky notes.

What it is
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* kaddressbook: The KDE addressbook application.
* kandy: sync phone book entries between your cell phone and computer
         ("kandy" comes from "Handy", the german word used for a cellular)
* korganizer: a calendar-of-events and todo-list manager
* kpilot: to sync with your PalmPilot
* kalarm: gui for setting up personal alarm messages and commands
* kalarmd: alarm monitoring daemon, shared by korganizer and kalarm.
* kaplan: A shell for the PIM apps, still experimental.
* karm: Time tracker.
* kitchensync: Synchronisation framework, still under heavy development.
* kfile-plugins: vCard KFIleItem plugin.
* knotes: yellow notes application
* konsolecalendar: Command line tool for accessing calendar files.

There is also quite an amount of infrastructure in this package:

* calendarsystem: library for handling of non-gregorian calendar systems 
* libical: a basic iCalendar protocol implementation, see RFCs 2245,2246
* libkcal: C++ api for the iCalendar and vCalendar formats
* libkpimexchange: connecting to Exchange2000 servers
* kabc/frontend: A GUI frontend for libkabc, not intended for end users.
* kgantt: lib to display and manage Gantt diagrams
* ksync: library for syncing collections of data entries

The following subdirectories have been moved to kdenonbeta/kdepim:

* empath: a modular e-mail client, designed for reuse, needs a Qt
          with threading support
* twister: another personal information manager, needs empath
* kab2: another design for the KDE addressbook

* ldif: a parser for LDIF, the LDAP Information Interchange Format
* libdif: dito, one of them is superfluous
* libimap: IMAP handling
* librmm: an Internet mail message parser (RFC 822 -> Class hierarchy)

Mailing List, getting involved
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If you'd like to get involved with the project, subscribe to kde-pim@kde.org
with an email to kde-pim-request@kde.org with the subject line:
subscribe my@email.address

If you ave questions questions relating to this module please post them on the
mailing list (kde-pim@mail.kde.org).

$Id: README,v 1.11.2.1 2003/01/30 23:50:28 djarvie Exp $
