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This page is meant as a melting pot to come up with a schedule for the [[Desktop_Search_Hackfest|Desktop Search Hackfest]], held in Berlin 18-22 September. Note that only two of these days are designated for the Desktop search hackfest.

= 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 Future ===
'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h

'''Description:''' Where do we go from 1.0? Apart from the already roadmapped items for Xesam 1.1 what should we look into? Paged search results, extensions to the query language, life on Mars? Mikkel will give a brief (7 min) recap of the things that has already been aired as well as a few personal ideas. After that the discussion is free.
''This BOF should be placed after the Xesam Design and Critique BOF''.

'''Attending:'''
* Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
* Sebastian Pölsterl

=== 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)
* Jos van den Oever
* Ben Martin
* Sebastian Trueg

=== 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 [[http://xesam.org/main/XesamIteration2 Xesam's iteration 2 page]]

'''Attending:'''
* Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
* Anders Rune Jensen
* Sebastian Trueg

=== 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 [[http://xesam.org/main/XesamIteration2 Xesam's iteration 2 page]]

'''Attending:'''
* Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
* Sebastian Trueg

=== 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
* Anders Rune Jensen
* Jos van den Oever
* Ben Martin

=== 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)
* Sebastian Pölsterl

=== Desktop 3000 ===
'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h (depending on the number of participants)

'''Description:''' Assuming we have rich, instantly searchable, metadata everywhere what cool ideas will be possible? The participants will air their far fetched crack-pot-dreams and juicy fantasies in 7 minute presentations. Mikkel will kick the session off with his ''"Do-what-I-think-Desktop"'' idea.

'''Attending:'''
* Mikkel Kamstrup (host)
* Anders Rune Jensen

=== Xesam-GLib bindings ===
'''Type:''' Hack session

'''Duration:''' 1 day

'''Description:''' In this session Xesam-GLib bindings for Python and C# are created.

'''Attending:'''
* Sebastian Pölsterl (host)

=== Xesam search modules ===
'''Type:''' Hack session

'''Duration:''' 1 day (depends on the amount of applications we want to write plugins for)

'''Description:''' The purpose of this session is to write Xesam module for various applications using the newly written Xesam-GLib bindings. I'm thinking of a Deskbar-Applet and Gnome-Do module. Feel free to add additional applications.

'''Attending:'''
* Sebastian Pölsterl (host)

=== Xesam compliance testing ===

'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h (depending on the number of participants)

'''Description:''' Xesam has a relatively simple API and search language. Nevertheless, none of the implementation are complete. We need a benchmark to judge how well every client works with a large corpus of documents to index.

'''Attending:'''
* Jos van den Oever (host)
* Mikkel Kamstrup

=== Implementing Indexes on Flash ===
'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h

'''Description:''' The old disk head seek time enemy is slain! But flash still is block oriented so primary memory structures mmap()ed to flash are still as unwise as ever. The BOF is a general discussion of how storing indexes (inverted files, triple stores) on flash might allow techniques that would be prohibitively slow on spinning storage.

'''Attending:'''
* Ben Martin (host)
* Mikkel Kamstrup

=== Maybe replacing inotify as the base of Desktop Search Crawling ===
'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h

'''Description:''' Using inotify to monitor a collection of directories, maybe even a few hundred is fine. But if you want to monitor the entire filesystem, using something that allows all create,change,delete operations that the same UID performs to be seen would be great. Even more so on a device that is CPU/RAM contrained like the maemo ones, when the user might shove 32gb of storage and a few hundred thousand files on their mobile system.

'''Attending:'''
* Ben Martin (host)
* Mikkel Kamstrup
* Sebastian Trueg

=== Xesam support for more interfaces ===
'''Type:''' Hack session

'''Duration:''' 1h

'''Description:''' Implement basic Xesam support for a selected search interface. (ie. Avant, beagle-search, tracker-search etc.0

'''Attending:'''
* Still needs host

=== Search interface design ===
'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h

'''Description:''' Whats the deal with all the different approaches to search interfaces? Lessons learned? Likes/Dislikes? What should we see in the next-gen search interface.

''Note: This BOF has a bit of overlap with the Desktop 3000 BOF. Maybe we should combine them?'' -- kamstrup

'''Attending:'''
* Still needs host

=== Make Xesam Semantic Data Ready ===
'''Type:''' BOF

'''Duration:''' 1h

'''Description:''' Xesam is a key/value system and as such is not able to provide a search on a data graph as used in Nepomuk. In this session I would like to discuss how the API can be extended to provide these features.

'''Attending:'''
Ben Martin

'''Host'''
Sebastian Trueg

= Schedule =

== Days Before the Official Program ==

=== Friday 19 ===
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|- 
|  width="112" | '''9:00-12:00'''
|  colspan="3" | '''Visiting the official maemo program and announcements'''
|- 
| '''12:00'''
|  colspan="3" | '''Break and lunch.'''
|- 
| '''13:00-1400'''
|  colspan="3" | '''Setting up hacking facilities in room(s?) reserved for our conference use. Agreeing on practices for documenting hackfest results.  '''
|- 
| '''14:00-1415'''
|  colspan="3" | ''' Spreading to work on the concrete hacking tasks (choosing from pool) - dividing to groups if necessary.  '''
|- 
| '''14:15-18:00'''
|  colspan="3" | ''' Hacking on coding tasks '''
|- 
| '''18:00'''
|  colspan="3" | '''Chill out.'''
|}

== Day 1 : Saturday 20th  ==
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|-
|  '''10:00-11:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''BOF  Desktop Search Status report  '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''

|-
|  '''11:00-12:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''BOF (*) BOF Xesam Design and Critique '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''

|-
|  '''13:00-14:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''BOF Xesam Index API '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''

|-
|  '''16:00-17:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''BOF Xesam Future '''
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== Day 2 : Sunday 21st ==

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|-
|  '''10:00-11:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''Implementing Indexes on Flash'''
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|-
|  '''11:00-12:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''BOF Xesam Future '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''
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|-
|  '''13:00-14:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''BOF Desktop 3000  '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''
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|-
|  '''14:00-15:00''' 
|  width="33%" | '''Maybe replacing inotify as the base of Desktop Search Crawling'''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''
|  width="33%" | ''' '''

|-
|  '''15:00-16:00''' 
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== Day(s) After the Official Program ==

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 '''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.
-'''Comments:''' Sebastian Pölsterl: I think it would make sense to write widgets before working on the bindings. That way the bindings and modules based on those bindings could include the widgets, too.
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