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
Host: Mikkel Kamstrup
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:
- Dirk Diggler
Xesam MetadataStorage API
Host: Mikkel Kamstrup
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:
- Dirk Diggler
Xesam Index API
Host: Mikkel Kamstrup
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:
- Dirk Diggler
Desktop Search Status report
Host: Sebastian Pölsterl
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:
- Mikkel Kamstrup