Akonadi communication strategy

Akonadi is complex, low-level and does not seem to have immediate benefits - the memes on this page can help communicate what Akonadi is good for to counter the 'bloath' and 'empty promises' arguments.

Memes

do cool things with Akonadi TODAY

EXAMPLES NEEDED

You won't even know you're using it

EXAMPLES of how akonadi helps without any intervention

It solves real world issues

EXAMPLES of real world issues solved by Akonadi

issues it stil might have that might bite you (price of progress)

Packaging issues galore: packagers are not yet familiar and dependencies are new and sometimes still immature. This creates issues. In time, the out-of-the-box experience will get better.

Questions questions

(what Akonadi is and is not)

it is important to note that Akonadi does NOT store user data. It caches it. The basic storage is still the traditional format, be it an online server (imap) or local files (ical calendar files).

Akonadi works with Nepomuk, in that it feeds Nepomuk with certain information about it's data.