Hi NEPOMUK, I take the time of the successfull KDE 4.4 release to give some feedback:
Since years I watch the news about NEPOMUK-KDE, and this time (4.4), I get the impression the news was very positive. So I conclude that users and the press now ask "what NEPOMUK features do I get next?" instead of "make it go away, it slows down my computer and I don't know what it is". Is my feeling right? (I hope) can you share some positive NEPOMUK KDE stories? Second, I have been a frequent speaker about Semantic Desktop since 2003, and I am happy to confess that now finally I have something to talk about: NEPOMUK-KDE is it, and its gaining momentum. At CeBIT 2010 I gave a talk about Semantic Desktop and KDE and oscaf.org and gnowsis.com, and I asked the question: how many people use KDE in the audience? Of the ~100 people listening, around 8 rose their hands. They asked interested questions, like "does it watch my files when I move them", and I said "I think so, if not, ask the NEPOMUK-KDE mailinglist, Sebastian is a very friendly guy". I also met people from KOffice, Inge Wallin from KO GmbH, see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/4401710199/in/set-72157623534291606/ http://www.kogmbh.com Jos, you know these guys (they say). Inge showed me some RDF-based annotation features in KOffice and I get the impression that he understood very well what it means to embed RDF metadata in Text documents - he mentioned some serious business cases and that they got funding to go ahead with them (I don't know how much is public, so I rather remain vague here). So, I could go on here for longer, but the essence is: NEPOMUK-KDE is here to stay and I like it. We have an excellent basis already, I am looking forward to seeing it grow more and more, and I am telling others how great it is. greetings from Vienna, Leo -- _____________________________________________________ Dr. Leo Sauermann http://www.dfki.de/~sauermann Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI GmbH Trippstadter Strasse 122 P.O. Box 2080 Fon: +43 6991 gnowsis D-67663 Kaiserslautern Fax: +49 631 20575-102 Germany Mail: leo.sauerm...@dfki.de Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 _____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ nepomuk-kde mailing list nepomuk-kde@semanticdesktop.org http://lists.semanticdesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk-kde
