Ubuntu One Client

LDAP for Ubuntu One

Asked by Stephen Hammer

It seems to me that for a lot of people the most useful thing that a cloud server could offer would be a universally-accessible address book. How about an LDAP server built into Ubuntu One? It would be huge.

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Elliot Murphy (statik) said : 		#1

I agree that a universally accessible address book would be great!
We're working on accomplishing this via a replicating contact store
based on CouchDB, so the address book and data is available even if
you are offline, and even if the data center burns down.

To see the first phase, check out the Ubuntu One address book in
Evolution, which can be synchronized with your account on
one.ubuntu.com. Over time I expect more and more apps to be able to
read contacts from this data store.
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Elliot Murphy

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Stephen Hammer (sh-hoboy) said : 		#2

Hi Elliot, thanks for your reply. I hadn't heard of CouchDB so checked it out, fascinating! It looks like a very useful project. Kind of like LDAP but with a simpler API, is that right? I'm wondering about future plans and how universal support will actually become--ideally of course one's address book would not only be accessible in Evolution but in Thunderbird, from your cell phone, and (blasphemy) from a Windoze machine. Maybe a bridge of some kind so an LDAP-enabled app can use it? I'd be interested in anything further you can share.

thanks,
Steve

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Best Elliot Murphy (statik) said : 		#3

We're definitely working on getting address books synced with mobile phones, and should have something that people can start trying out soon. Thunderbird integration - I'd absolutely love for someone to work on that, but it's not on the immediate list that we're already coding on.

One of the exciting things about CouchDB is that we've tried to design things so that the data is not locked up in an Ubuntu One silo - community developers can replicate couchdb without using the Ubuntu One servers if they want, and any application developer can tie into the contacts system or build their own features on top of CouchDB.

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Stephen Hammer (sh-hoboy) said : 		#4

interesting! Thanks for the info.