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[Matthew Markell <markellmtthw@xxxxxxx>]

This sounds like a really good idea Cassidy. Here's a blueprint I wrote
some time ago that talks about setting up a separate project for web
services contracts:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/web-contracts

Hopefully this can be implemented rather quickly and be shipped with Luna.

Matthew Markell

On 02/17/2012 01:13 AM, Cassidy James wrote:
>
> Oh, also, if we have those imagebin and other contracts, it'd be great
> to get them packaged up to get tested.
>
> On Feb 17, 2012 1:07 AM, "Cassidy James" <c@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:c@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hey everyone,
>
>     I was looking at some of the OS X Mountain Lion announcement stuff
>     and noticed they were really pushing the fact that Twitter was
>     integrated into their OS. It got me thinking; most social networks
>     have a pretty simple API... why can't we add them into elementary
>     in the form of Contracts for Contractor?
>
>     We can, and in my opinion, should. While we could rely on an app
>     like Gwibber to handle all the social networking, why not just
>     bake it in and make it even more seamless? At this point I'm not
>     even sure that Gwibber could be set up to handle contracts without
>     upstream patches.
>
>     We could even have a Sharing plug in Switchboard to handle the
>     authentication and switching on or off of services.
>
>     Let me know what you think, if there are any drawbacks, and if you
>     want to work on it. ;)
>
>     Thanks,
>     Cassidy James
>
>
>