[Xesam] Desktop Search Hackfest - planning

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2008/8/3 Ivan Frade <ivan.frade at gmail.com>:
> Hi Mikkel,
>
>> Here are a few points worth discussion outside the wiki:
>>
>>  * Are there any other things than BOFs and coding sessions we could
>> indulge in? I don't know if we should have presentations. Somehow it
>> would feel weird without it, but I am not sure that we need them as
>> such. Maybe mini-presentation/BOF would fare better if productivity is
>> our main goal.
>
>  If somebody wants to show something, we can arrange a short "demo"
> session. This is a hackfest, not a conference, so i expect "a little
> less conversation a little more action".

Are you saying that Elvis will be there? I just knew he was still alive.

>>  * How, formally, do we decide on an agenda? Personally I would
>> probably go for collecting proposals (ie, from people volunteering to
>> be responsible for them) on the wiki, and then have a small group of
>> people try and fit that into and agenda (giving room for hacking
>> sessions as well).
>
>  We can define a concrete list of goals in different categories (for
> example, XESAM, Tracker, Architecture...). I heard that in the Berlin
> GTK hackfest they spent almost one day (the first) defining these
> goals, and we have only two days!. Also the people can decide
> beforehand what they want to do and prepare their
> agenda/presentations/software/ideas for discussion.
>
>  After the Hackfest we can review the goals list and mark them as
> "Achieved", "Agreement on the topic", "Fail",...

Agreed. This would be a very good idea. I just added a subpage related
to Xesam ontology work. Maybe people could do that for each item they
have interest in.

Preferably we would not do any planning at all at the hackfest. It
simply consumes tonnes of time and mental energy by my experiance -
although realistically we will probably need to do some.

Cheers,
Mikkel