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[Sid Payton <sidpayton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Renato,
I'm working with Mathias on this project. I thought about integrating this
app into a standard application like telepathy as well and thought of this
as the ultimate goal at first as well.
But here are a few things that need to be considered and resolved:

- Most people people would expect a standalone whats-app app linke they
know from other devices (this will resolve it self after some time)
- people would geht confused which way they used to communicate (chat or
Whats app which I belive a simple mark up wouldn't resolve). The people on
the other side would get annoyed because of receiving answers on another
service, which they would blame Ubuntu on.

But non the less, I belive that a unified massaging service is the higher
goal. After all wie just want to communicate with our friends
and family the cheapest and fastest way possible and don't want to care
which app I have to use. I also think that the messaging indicator is doing
this job already very well.

What do you thing? Are my concerns justified or can you think of a
solution?

All the best,
Jan

Am 04.03.2013 13:31 schrieb "Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho" <
renato.filho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hi Mathias great job.
>
> On 03/02/2013 11:26 AM, Matthias Gehre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote a WhatsApp client "WhosThere" for Ubuntu phone (and Ubuntu).
> >
> > [Intro]
> > It's implemented in C++/QML/Javascript communicating with it's backend
> > yowsup (open-source WhatsApp library for N9) via dbus.
> >
> > Current version is very alpha. What works:
> > - Registering a mobile number with the Whatsapp service
> > - Sending and Receiving Messages (no images, group chat or other fancy
stuff).
> > - Delivery notifications
> > - Credentials and Messages are saved/loaded to LocalStorage.
> > - Demo mode that you can try without registering (but you cannot
> > actually send/receive anything)
> I was thinking about that but my idea was write a telepathy plugin for
> WatsApp, this way you will be able to use it with any application which
> already uses telepathy as back-end, for example telephony app in the
> device, empathy on the desktop, and notification system.
>
> >  ...
> >
> > [Project members needed]
> > I would be very happy if one can help me with:
> > - the design (obviously)
> > - the design (I cannot stress that enough)
> > - coding
> > - what you feel worthwhile
> > If interested, you can also reach me on irc in #ubuntu-touch, username
matge.
> If you have interest to integrate it with telepathy we can avoid the
> design since you will use the existent applications. :D
> And you choose this way I can help you on that.
>
>
> > Best wishes,
> > Matthias
> >
> Congratulations, good job this is a very useful application.
>
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