Re: [Tracker] About the itsme project

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:01 +0200, Marco Loregian wrote:
> Hi Ivan, sorry for the late reply but I've been quite busy in the last
> days. Before answering your questions, we will be at Maemo Summit and
> would be extremely glad to meet you guys from the mailing list there,
> if you are attending. It could be a nice chance to talk about our
> projects... possibly in front of a nice cold beer :-)
>
> Can we arrange for an dinner or evening out (Friday or Saturday) in Amsterdam?

Count me in. I'll be a useful meeting participant as I can help
translating the menu! :)

Both evenings are fine for me.

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ivan Frade <ivan frade nokia com> wrote:
>
> >  Nice, other projects as Zeitgeist are heading in the same direction. It
> > is a very interesting topic. Tracker is (want to be) the place to store
> > the results of all that computation.
> Ys, that's the reason why we are so interested in it. We've been
> experimenting with other solutions, but none of them was as effective
> as tracker is being â Michele/netvandal can witness this in first
> person :)

Cool!

> >  After a quick look to the web page, i wonder how "open source" is the
> > project? is it close developement (talking about code)? will it be in
> > the future? any plans for open developement?
> Yes, we are planning to be as open as possible: since we're finding
> such a large overlap between our (back-end) project and tracker we are
> redefining how to "wrap" and distribute our software, but we've
> already opted for a GPL distribution.

Note that some of Tracker's bits and pieces are LGPL (for example all of
its libraries). If this ain't the case for a piece of code that you want
to reuse, then let us know (we can probably relicense it for you, we
just need to check whether we authored the entire file, and if not ask
the respective authors for permission).

> Our company is still a little bit uncertain on how to release and
> market the user interface, because we'd like to somehow protect our
> visual concept (maybe with something like Creative Commons).

Okay, sure. Your secrets are safe with us. When you show us something,
just tell us that we shouldn't do spoilers in our blogs about it.

If it's more serious, then I guess we need to talk about NDAs first?

> >  Sounds good. I guess you will hit the KIO/GIO compatibility problems,
> > but it is a very good moment to discuss how to represent the real files
> > on our ontologies.
> Yes, I've been in other former projects in which we had problems like
> those... is there an open discussion to join?

Yes, search for the Xesam project, join its IRC channel and its mailing
list. We discuss development on our ontology via the Xesam project.

Where Xesam is devel, OSCAF is the official project. We have a ticket
open at OSCAF about these issues:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/ticket/46

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam

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