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This is a work-in-progress page! A lot of what is below is still pretty much BRAINDUMP. Edit with care.

Introduction

Real time Communication has traditionally been a detatched feature of Desktop Computing, provided via stand-alone Instant Messaging clients with poor integration into the desktop experience. One of the primary goals of the KDE 4 series is to tighten integration between different components of the environment. The Realtime Communication and Collaboration (RTCC) project aims to tackle just this.

Our aims are:

To integrate Real Time Communication deeply into the KDE Workspaces and Applications
To provide a infrastructure to aid development of Collaborative features for KDE applications.

If you find these goals appealing, why not consider getting involved. C++ programming is *not* a necessity.

Technical Information

The RTCC project uses the cross-desktop Telepathy Framework as the basis for our work.

Getting Involved

At this stage, the best way to get involved is to contact the existing team, either on IRC (#kde-telepathy channel on irc.freenode.net) or on our mailing list.

The Work

What we need to get done. This is divided into two sections:

Phase 1 contains the tasks which *must* be completed in order for us to make a first release.
Phase 2 contains other speculative major features that we will probably implement once Phase 1 is complete.

Phase 1

These tasks need to be completed as soon as possible, in order to give us basic functioning text IM.

Status	Task	Developers	Source Code
IN PROGRESS	Account Management GUI	George Goldberg <grundleborg googlemail com>	Web SVN Link
NOT STARTED	Chat Window App	Matt Rogers <>
NOT STARTED	Logger Application
IN PROGRESS	Buddy List App	George Goldberg <grundleborg googlemail com>
NOT STARTED	Desktop Wide Tp::Approver

Phase 2

Once phase 1 is complete, these are the other tasks that we should complete.

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 At this stage, the best way to get involved is to contact the existing team, either on IRC (#kde-telepathy channel on irc.freenode.net) or on our [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy mailing list].
-==Main Tasks==
+==The Work==
-The main tasks that need to be completed to get IM supported at least as well as it is in current monolithic versions of Kopete. These are divided into two phases - the minimum we need to get things going, and then other basic features that we will need to supersede the current Kopete feature set.
+What we need to get done. This is divided into two sections:
+* [[#Phase_1|Phase 1]] contains the tasks which *must* be completed in order for us to make a first release.
+* [[#Phase_2|Phase 2]] contains other speculative major features that we will probably implement once [[#Phase_1|Phase 1]] is complete.
 === Phase 1 ===