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 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list