My Google Summer of Code application, called Networked Tomboy was accepted. Just to quote myself:
Tomboy is a note-taking application for the GNOME desktop. As such it is evolving as a replacement for the traditional ‘sticky notes’ applet and offers several advantages, including easy formatting and wiki-style links. But currently Tomboy notes are limited to the desktop. That means that users can’t easily transfer their notes between different desktops (e.g. their home and work computer or their desktop and laptop PC) or publish their notes for other users.
This project is supposed to solve this problem. Using an abstraction of Tomboy’s data storage format and system, an alternative system for storing notes in a central repository will be developed. This repository can then be accessed by Tomboy instances. Additionally a note publishing system will be developed. It will allow to publish selected notes either on a local network (using Zeroconf) or to web pages.
I’m rather happy to get the opportunity to hack on a program that I use myself and that missed functionality I need.
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