Re: Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

I know a couple folks were talking about something like this a few
months ago, and I believe some code was even written- Shaun? There
were even some less creepy names- heartbeat, maybe? :)

[Speaking as someone who wants to observe GNOME from afar, I'm
intensely interested in seeing this go forward, so good luck.]

Luis

On 10/10/06, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro andrew cmu edu> wrote:
> Howdy Folks,
>
> Does it sometimes feel like managing all your GNOME related information
> is like drinking from a firehose?  Are you disappointed with how
> difficult it can be to find that marble of interesting projcet
> information in the swimming pool of oatmeal that is the constant chatter
> of GNOME worldwide?  Are you looking for a better way to understand
> what's hot in email, CVS, blogs, bugzilla, and still get all the useless
> links off #gnome-hackers?
>
> Fortunately, there's creepy folks like me who have been tracking a lot
> of that information.  The problem has been how do we expose all this
> information to everyone in a method that is beautiful and makes sense.
> The answer, Echelon for GNOME.  Echelon for GNOME is a project to make
> sense of all this data.  What's hot on Planet GNOME?  Has there been a
> really cool CVS commit in the past few days that you just need to check
> out?  With all the mailing list threads, wouldn't it be nice if I could
> just see the ones that other people think are interesting?
>
> After discussing a myriad of ways that we could rip off KDE's English
> Breakfast Network, we concluded that a digg like interface that can
> bring all these things together would be a great innovation.  That, is
> the premise of Echelon for GNOME.  Is it ambitious, probably.  Is it
> cool, yes!  Can we actually use the term "digg" for when we find
> something cool, probably not.  Instead, we'll VERB it (where verb is
> something like excavate, drill, stomp, flag, shimmy, dance, shake, etc).
>
> Interested?  Me too.  I've put a brief wiki page with some of the
> discussion notes at http://live.gnome.org/Boston2006/EchelonForGnome
> Feel free to look and modify it.
>
> --Patrick
>
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