I’m at the Zeitgeist Hackfest in Bolzano Italy in the middle of the Alps. Here a lot of the Zeitgeist team meets for about a week to lay the groundwork for the upcoming version 0.3 of Zeitgeist. Today is the 4th day of hacking and we are doing the final touches on our new engine codenamed Resonance while just a few meters away from us the GUI guys are polishing the last widgets and fixing the last few bugs.

We spent the last few days brainstorming and discussing various ideas and implementing the resulting solutions. Both of which I will blog about in a few days. Beside the work on the code Federico Mena held a little Presentation about Gnome and Zeitgeist to spread the word to some of the students from the school we hack in.

Seif Lotfy and I added our relevancy code to the engine which I enhanced with another nice feature that let’s Zeitgeist decide which of the applications or documents were used for the most time within a given time period. So you can query Zeitgeist either for a list of most focused documents or applications or you can query for the usage time of a specific document or application. The gained data will also be used to calculate relevancy.

Also present and involved in some of the discussions was Ivan Frade (Nokia) from the Tracker team. In addition to his contribution to a lot of our discussions about Zeitgeist, we had a very fruitful conversation about the current and future collaboration between the two applications.

Meeting in one place and working for a few days got us a big step forward. In this short week we could accomplish what would have taken us far more time, had we done it from our hometowns, just connected by the internet. Thanks go out to the Gnome Foundation, our generous sponsor, without whom this wouldn’t have taked place and to the people organizing our stay, you did a great job. The hostel was great! It even developed free wifi during our stay

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Seif Lotfy, Moritz Eberl and I went to OWF in Paris where Seif and I held a little presentation of Zeitgeist in a Mandriva organised part of the conference titled “Envisioning the open semantic desktop of the future”. Before our presentation, Stefan Decker of DERI talked about the history and future of information representation and introduced the audience to the semantic web and desktop. After our presentation Sebastian Trüg presented technologies and applications you will shortly be seeing in KDE.

We received a lot of positive feedback on that talk. If you want to find out more, head over to Seif’s blog.

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Thanks for all the people who made this possible.

I’m now a proud member of the Gnome Foundation. Yeah!

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