I’d mentioned that I’d be participating in the the Google Summer of Code programme this year. More details ensue …
I will be working on Beagle, an uber-cool desktop search tool. The idea behind such a tool is that most of us today work with a massive amount of diverse information everyday. Often we find ourselves trying to remember the answers to questions like “where’d I put that email about …”, “what was that site I saw on …”, “what was that phone number X gave me on IM”, and “where the !@#$ did I put that file …”. Beagle tracks all this and more information, and makes is very simple for you to find. If you haven’t used it, or a similar tool, I highly recommend it, especially if you do a lot of work on your computer.
I’ve posted more details on what I’ll be working on, and why at http://beagle-project.org/BeagleXesam
Phew! Comments, feedback welcome.
Personally, this is great for me, having a focused task to work on and being able to contribute to an open source project. I’m also excited about working with Mono/C#. This might seem strange, given my reservations about a Microsoft-controlled platform. You have to see the code to understand how much cleaner Beagle looks than an equivalent C/C++ implementation would.
Once the semester ends (2 weeks), I will dive into the code and familiarise myself with it.
Update: It seems that I forgot one thing. :D
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Quick question : kubuntu 6.10 and kerry 0.1 . How do you make beagle stop using kmail to open conversations and instead make it use thunderbird?
Awesome! I’m sure getting paid for working on open source doesn’t hurt much either… ;-)
so its taken 3 years after Nat’s presentation to get you directly involved :P
Rock On!
Strange that KMail emails are opening in Thunderbird. Do you use both clients for mail checking?
Not sure, because I don’t use KDE. Maybe you could drop by #dashboard on irc.gimp.org?
Oh, I get paid? :P Now how did I forget that little bit of information …
Naah. I use thunderbird for emails. Beagle can search through them, but insists on using kmail to open search results – which does not work.
Might it be because of the KDE “default mail client” setting?
Actually one of my fellow Beagle SoC’ers is your man for this — http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2007-April/msg00053.html :)
Nope – default is thunderbird. :S. Thanks for the pointer!