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JMAP for Everything (Destroy All Monsters): JMAP Calendar, Contacts, Files

K.4.201 | Day 1 | 15:30 - 16:00 | Speakers: Ricardo Signes

JMAP for Everything (Destroy All Monsters): JMAP Calendar, Contacts, Files
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Abstract

If you're following along with email standards, you know about JMAP: it replaces both IMAP and SMTP-for-sending, eliminating a lot of weird and dated protocol design with HTTP and JSON. It makes easy things easy, and also enables fast, efficient offline synchronization. It's not a new email system, just a new access protocol.

But did you know that JMAP can also handle your calendars, your address book, your files, and plenty more things to come? This talk will describe JMAP extensions for those systems: what they are, how they work, and why you should be excited.

Speakers

Ricardo Signes

Ricardo Signes is a chief engineer at Fastmail, a leader in email innovation. He has long been a prolific author of open source code, especially in the Perl email ecosystem. He is part of the "Toolchain Gang" that maintains the Perl library packaging and distribution infrastructure. He spent five years as "Pumpking," the Perl 5 project manager, followed by two more on the three-person Perl Steering Council that replaced the Pumpking role. In his free time, Rik likes to learn new programming languages and swear at his computer.

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