Re: [Tracker] [Xesam] Proposal: Desktop Search hackfest

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2008/8/28 Anders Rune Jensen <anders 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 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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-- 
Cheers,
Mikkel