The idea of collaborative work
Free desktops empower their users to work together over the internet, and share their ideas, artwork, scripts and files. The missions of GHNS is to provide the necessary infrastructure on the client, the server and the protocols in between.
(20.03.2007) KNewStuff2 shaping up
KNewStuff2 will become an implementation of the GHNS specification which will also support DXS. Development has been going on for many months. With the KDE 4 release cycle becoming more refined, KNewStuff2 is currently being prepared for inclusion in the KDE libraries package (kdelibs).
(26.07.2005) DXS development on dxs-project.org
The development of the Desktop eXchange Service (DXS) is now powered by the new site http://www.dxs-project.org/. Work will result in a specification of the webservice, and a couple of implementations.
(01.07.2005) GHNS Project now at freedesktop.org
Finally, the project has moved to its destination at ghns.freedesktop.org. The mailing list and the SVN repository have been smoothly moved over along with it.
(07.06.2005) Newsflash: Desktop Exchange Service (DXS)
Based on an idea by Michael Gebhart, GHNS should also be accessible as a webservice. The Desktop Exchange Service works similar to "traditional" uploads and downloads, except that all data is embedded in a single SOAP message. The first implementation is available thanks to the SOAP::Lite Perl module. Further work on finding a suitable format is going on.
(07.06.2005) GHNS Project goes live!
The GHNS Project, formerly hosted at http://kstuff.org/ghns/, has found its new home at http://ghns.berlios.de/. While the old URL remains to cover KDE-specific parts, the new one enables us to advance the project in a cross-desktop way.