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.

Contents

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)

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

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)
  • Anders Rune Jensen

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
  • Anders Rune Jensen
  • Jos van den Oever

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)

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

Schedule

Days Before the Official Program

Day 1 : Saturday 20th

Day 2 : Sunday 21st

Day(s) After the Official Program