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Minerva has two halves - the universal desktop & integrated communications.

Universal "Desktop"

  • Pieces (like UFS) may be natively accessible from client platforms, but all must be browser-accessible for portability
  • take the best parts of Athena and make them cross-platform, OS-neutral services
  • find a customer
  • build alliances with others who may develop the apps, while we do the backend
  • See YouOS (http://youOs.com) for an interesting example

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  • Possible applications:
  • departments using web.mit.edu w/o scripting ability (i.e. Chem E)

Integrated Communications

  • portable, accessible thru browser
  • email (like Google Mail)
  • Jabber-based presence
  • IM (integrating w/all major clients, like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google)
  • chat
  • zephyr-style passive chat
  • VOIP (receive & initiate calls)
  • pieces detachable from web window (a la Gmail)
  • relevant technologies:
  • google mail
  • Zimbra
  • MIT departments are not big IM/chat users, but students are different
    • To do:
    • understand the student users
    • find a customer
    • make it visible