OpenContact.org

[phil hunt]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:35:32 GMT, William Levin <oc at opencontact.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This is an invitation for Open Source enthusiasts and contact management 
>software developers to join OpenContact.org, a new online forum for the 
>discussion of contact management systems.
>
>The ultimate goal of OpenContact.org is to explore options for 
>integrating a centralized contact management database into the operating 
>system; and to develop an extensive set of standard fields (akin to 
>vCard) for universally compatible contact management.  This would allow 
>every third-party application on a computer to access the same contact 
>data set, and eliminate the need to import and export contact data on a 
>single system.

That sounds interesting. I might add this sort of functionality to 
Herbivore at some point.



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