A few weeks ago, other members of the Zeitgeist team and myself visited OpenSUSE Conf in Nuremberg. I met a lot of interesting people there and took part in a lot of conversations and discussions regarding the near future of Gnome, Zeitgeist, Mayanna and other projects.

One of the most fruitful encounters was the one with Sebastian Faubel and Moritz Eberl from the Organise Framework. They are writing an abstraction layer on top of the hierarchical file system with the use of semantic web technology. To that end, they are working on a replacement for the Gnome file open/save dialog. At the time of OpenSUSE Conf, they were looking for a plugin system to allow different views on your files. After presenting Mayanna to them and talking for a while, they decided, that Mayanna was exactly what they were looking for.

They are currently working on a prototype of their file open/save dialog which will contain a leaner version of Mayanna. If fate treats us well and the community likes their approach, the whole thing will be ported to C to be included into Gnome.

That means the heart of Mayanna will be ported to C as well, which should provide us with an even faster and more memory efficient core. Hurray!