[Cosmo-dev] Understanding the Cosmo server side target users

[Brian Moseley]

On 9/8/06, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> For people who are heavy personal calendar users, I can how it's nice
> to receive alarms in IM simply because it's nice to have it all
> integrated into 1 client that you know you always have on. I'm less
> sure about whether IM notifications are necessity, filling some
> workflow gap that can't be filled in some other, already existing way.

yea i don't think this is the case. however, instant messaging is
another vehicle for communications that is being adopted in new and
unconventional ways. providing several ways for alarm notifications to
be delivered - email, im, sms, etc - opens the gates for third parties
to build a wide variety of tools to integrate with cosmo.

> Is there anyone out there who uses alarms in unconventional ways?
> e.g. email, SMS, IM etc?

not really. i just want to get alarm notifications in my im client
rather than my email client ;)