Re: [Tracker] Proposal: Desktop Search hackfest

[Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

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.
> >
> > 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.
> >     
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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.
>
> jamie
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