CS PIM
The CouchSurfing Wiki, an informal workspace which anyone can edit.
This page is a Request for Enhancement. It is a draft. You are encouraged to find support for it, etc.
After the enhancement has been clearly articulated, and all affected portions of the website have been identified, you may try to persuade a developer to implement it. After implementation it will be deployed somewhere, but not necessarily to the main website.
A PIM is a "personal information manager", a software/application to organize all kinds of personal informations. A lot of common features of a PIM are also available at CouchSurfing. Improvements, Feature requests and more is spread all over the groups and the wiki, but a lot of it is (more or less) connected. So this page is a start to collect all the stuff, to get an overview and to sort out what is needed or not in a CS PIM.
Contents |
Table of PIM features - CS equivalent - Feature requests
| PIM Feature | CS-Equivalent | Feature requests |
|---|---|---|
| CS Mailsystem | ? | |
| Address book | Contact list and notes | ? |
| Calendar/Contacts: Birthdays | ? | see feature request at Bugtracker (more Ideas in groups?) |
| Calendar: Availability | ? | Host/Travel Calendar |
| Calendar: Appointments | ? | Couch Planner |
| RSS feeds | CS Groupmails/-digest | see also Groups vs. Forums |
Possible Features
- (More) Integrated Features at the CouchSurfing Website
- Maps and GPS support
- Exportfunctions
- Printable Notes (pdf, specials CSS)
- Open formats for common software, pda, cellphones ...
- Map/drections export to PDA, cellphones formats
- Synchronization with Desktopapplications or mobil devices
Why?
- CS is a lot about communication, that's why communication tools are important
- Comfortable technical features can help to concentrate on communication
Why not?
How?
Implementation
Not necessarily as one part of the system. But the single parts must be connected to each other.
Interested developers
- I am planning to implement the telephone and email contacts/visibility parts of this. JoeEdelman
- I'm currently implementing iCal calendar export for couchsurfing requests. It should be possible to extend this for other formats (including microformats) sometime in the future if there's need, once the general framework is ready. This could also be used for sending out meeting messages, or any other calendar-related information currently available on CS site. For more information, see Calendar integration Anu
(add yourself here if interested)
Comments
- I'd consider the option of giving various aspects of couchsurfing.com full interoperability with PIMs via the use of open standards, while leaving the boring details to real PIMs. So for instance the Birthdays could consolidate in a iCal calendar that can be imported either in Google Calendar or in iCal (if you're a mac user) and so on. Same thing for addressbooks. --Bru sometime on 23 February 2007
