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[Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great stuff!

On my end, I was at the GSoC Mentor Summit this week-end because of my
former day job on PacketFence but I attended a session where I spoke with
some Xamarin guy who also was at monkeyspace. I told them I see no problem
with competition if they want to show case their product by building an
android client for Tomboy. Competition is good for consumers anyway.

Really glad to hear about the motivation for the server side. I think this
is really the thing that needs most attention right now. There even could
be an opportunity for a one-man-shop around this (like pinboard or
instapaper) but with evernote and al competition might be hard.. I wish I
wasn't as lazy, busy and enjoying security industry so much otherwise I
might have tried to do just that.

I'm glad you had a great time and I'm sure you represented Tomdroid well.

Cheers!
p.s.: I think we will apply to get GSoC students next year

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Jango <j.4@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
> I just arrived back home from monkeyspace.org and wanted to give you a
> short conclusion about the Tomdroid related topics at the conference.
>
> First of all, it was very nice to meet Jared (the main developer of
> tomboy) and all the others in person and we had a great time.
>
> They were all very excited about the new features and abilities Tomdroid
> has gained lately. I told them all the credit goes to Noah :-)
> Further, we found some bugs and discussed the code. There are several
> improvements necessary, which I formulated in bug-reports. I will work
> on these bugs during the next weeks. Maybe you can also grab one if
> there is some time.
>
> _Sync Server:_
> I also pointed out that there will be a huge need for a proper sync
> server, as soon as we push the two-way-sync to the market. Unfortunately
> Snowy is not maintained at the moment and nobody has access to the
> Tomboy online server hosted by gnome.
>
> However, we found a guy from NY who is willing to maintain Snowy and we
> already asked to gain access to the server. Additionally, Timo Doerr (a
> Banshee Summer of Code Student) will try to develop a ServiceStack
> solution using the Tomboy library. This server will then be easy to
> maintain and should work fast and reliable. David from Monkeysquare
> offered, that they could probably arrange a server therefore. However
> this will cost something and it was discussed that Tomdroid could offer
> a donation version/button to pay for some of this expenses. But this all
> is future-talk, so there is no need to act immediately!
>
> As soon as the Tomboy library is finished by Jared, he will do the
> initial release for Macboy and will start to work on an iOS port.
> There is no Andorid port planned in the near future, as Tomdroid is
> working and looking quite good :-)
>
> They offered us a free license of Xamarin's "Mono for Android" in case
> we/I want to use the Tomboy library in the future. A port would be easy,
> as we can use the same layout, xmls,.. and attach it to the library.
> However, I told them that this will not happen soon, as I don't have any
> time and the library is not finished yet (and I already love Tomdroid as
> it is)
>
> In conclusion, it was a productive week and it was great meeting the
> .net guys behind the various projects. Unfortunately you were not there,
> plaxx and Noah :-(
> Maybe another time?!
>
> Any more questions?
> I hope we can fix the remaining bugs soon to be able to push a new
> stable release out there ;-)
>
> Greetings from Vienna,
> Stefan
>
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