[Xesam] [Tracker] Proposal: Desktop Search hackfest

[Jerry Tan]

I would like to join it also.

> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 18:07 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> But why?
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>> 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.
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> Its a good idea and I know the tracker devs including myself will want
> to attend
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> 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.
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> jamie
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