Desktop Search Hackfest/Schedule
This page is meant as a melting pot to come up with a schedule for the Desktop Search Hackfest, held in Berlin 18-22 September. Note that only two of these days are designated for the Desktop search hackfest.
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Agenda Meeting Log
A log of the meeting held 04.09.2008 by most of hackfest participants is available here: http://pastebin.ca/1194108
Session Drafts
This sections lists all BOFs, Hack-sessions, or other gatherings drafted for the hackfest.
Xesam Design and Critique
Type: BOF
Duration: 1h
Description: Voices in the community has aired dissatisfaction with the feature set and design of Xesam. We need to discuss this to get common understanding and to see if we can accomodate some of the problems. Mikkel will start out with a very brief (3-5 min) discussion on Xesam design principles. The participants will be expected to bring the bullets in form of concrete problems.
Attending:
- Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
Xesam MetadataStorage API
Type: BOF
Duration: 1h
Description: Xesam has long been promising to adopt a DBus interface to store and read metadata. Draft this API. There are baby steps towards this at [Xesam's iteration 2 page]
Attending:
- Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
Xesam Index API
Type: BOF
Duration: 1h
Description: Xesam has long been promising to adopt a DBus interface to the metadata of the index itself, ie retrieval of unique terms, counting of terms etc. Draft this API. There are baby steps towards this at [Xesam's iteration 2 page]
Attending:
- Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
Desktop Search Status report
Host:
Type: BOF
Duration: 1h
Description: Each search engine should quickly describe what the current status is and what their plans for the future are in 5-10 min.
Attending:
- Sebastian Pölsterl (host)
- Mikkel Kamstrup
Xesam-Gtk a Widget Set on Top of Xesam-GLib
Type: Hack session
Duration: 3h
Description: The purpose of this session is to design a basic set of widgets leveraging Xesam GLib to allow dead easy integration of Xesam search technologies in Gnome apps. We will start out with approx. 1h of hand waving, drawings, and discussions, and people are welcome to attend only this part. After this we fire up the laptops and get down to business.
Attending:
- Mikkel Kamstrup (host)