[Xesam] [Tracker] Proposal: Desktop Search hackfest

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 04:16:47 PDT 2008


2008/8/28 Anders Rune Jensen <anders at iola.dk>:
> 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. 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? ;-)

Updated. Looking forward to see you :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel

> 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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Mikkel


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