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[Seif Lotfy <seif@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:27 AM, frederik nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 03/11/10 01:58, Seif Lotfy wrote:
>
>> It is easy to access evolution and Thunderbird activities. Its on the top
>> of our list ATM. It is not in zeitgeist domain to merge contacts etc. We can
>> just tell you how you use the contacts. So all I can offer is to map the
>> contacts from zeitgeist to U1 or libfolks :)
>> Again I think this is currently the best approach.
>> Cheers
>> Seif
>>
>
> Can't wait to see real Metacontacts populating your Journals then, thanks a
> lot again for this wonderful thread!
> As i understand your last mail, you will map raw contact information from
> your UMA activity loggers to libfolks, right?
> So it is up to libfolks to use that information, associating simple email
> addresses with metacontacts containing similar or equal addresses, so that
> Places > People will display nice names and a thumb in the end, instead of
> ukulutl23@xxxxxxxxx with no avatar.
>

Almost! Unity People will extract the contacts activities from zeitgeist and
match these contacts with their representations in libfolks or U1.
So this is done on a Unity level. Making the hacking very simple


> Let's hope somebody will help with the meta stuff, i think its great to
> display most recent and most frequent, its even better if they are displayed
> in a nice human readable fashion, i.e. in a meta fashion. Name-Surname-Thumb
> We're all way too excited to see this happening :D
>

Yeah I am pretty excited about that too