[Xesam] [Tracker] Proposal: Desktop Search hackfest

[Ivan Frade]

Hi!

El jue, 28-08-2008 a las 11:48 +0200, ext Anders Rune Jensen escribió:
> Hi
> 
> I've just booked tickets and will be joining the hackfest to represent
> Nemo (Arriving 18, leaving 22). My hope is to give some insight from
> the point of a user of the search engines. 

 Great to hear that! I am very interested in the technical details of
Nemo :) 

Please join to the desktop hackfest mailing list:

https://garage.maemo.org/mail/?group_id=740

 Regards,

Ivan



> I tried updating the wiki page but it appears that the wiki is majorly
> broken. It detects my ip as localhost and furthermore the login
> doesn't work. So could someone with more powers update the desktop
> search wiki? ;-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Jerry Tan <Jerry.Tan at sun.com> wrote:
>         I would like to join it also.
>         
>                 
>                 On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 18:07 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
>                  
>                         Proposal: Desktop Search Hackfest.
>                         Calling to: Xesam, Beagle, Tracker projects
>                         and whoever else is involved.
>                         When: September 19 + the days the developers
>                         decide before & after.
>                         Where: Berlin.
>                         Why: The Board made a call to organize
>                         hackfest around events and the
>                         Maemo Summit has answered.
>                         Budget: Funded by Nokia within reasonable
>                         terms.
>                         
>                         But why?
>                         
>                         Ok, let me explain. We have some budget to
>                         sponsor participants to
>                         https://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2008 . We
>                         want to find a balance
>                         between Maemo community contributors, related
>                         upstream developers and
>                         core developers of the Maemo SW team at Nokia.
>                         We think organizing a
>                         GNOME hackfest is a win-win.
>                         
>                         Desktop search is an interesting area.
>                         Federico explained in GUADEC
>                         the problems of Oralia finding her stuff and
>                         there are many more
>                         things unsolved. It is becoming a critical
>                         area, considering that
>                         users are getting more volumes of data, more
>                         types of files and they
>                         have them spread through several devices and
>                         the Internet.
>                            
>                 
>                 Its a good idea and I know the tracker devs including
>                 myself will want
>                 to attend
>                 
>                 I would prefer it if it was Desktop search and
>                 *Metadata* as the search
>                 aspect is already well covered in Xesam but the use of
>                 a centralised
>                 metadata is critical to having a well integrated
>                 desktop.
>                 
>                 jamie
>                 
>                 
>                 
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