On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Duncan wrote: > I read something from one of the kde devs, I'm not sure where or which > dev, but... > > They mentioned that the reason the "semantic desktop" stuff got as BIG a > push as it did, back with early kde4, was that one of the European > governments had sponsored the work with a grant (they said which > government but I'm USian so forgot that detail, IIRC it was primarily > city or region, tho, not national, tho national might have been match- > funding).
It (Nepomuk) was an EU research project. The KDE part is actually just one of several research deliveries, called Nepomuk-desktop IIRC: One of the participating companies, Mandriva, was responsible for that part of the work and hired Sebastian TrĂ¼g to do it. He's now working for the company producing Virtuoso but doesn't have much time for work on Nepomuk-KDE. Fortunately, Vishesh Handa, one of KDE's Google Summer of Code students who worked on Nepomuk-KDE as part of GSOC, took over maintainership a while ago and is now (very recently) employed by Blue Systems to work on Nepomuk-KDE pretty much full time. Some of the non-code research deliverables, e.g. semantic ontologies, are being used by other projects as well, e.g. tracker. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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