Nepomuk Workshop 2 - The Open Social Semantic Desktop

[Sebastian Trüg]

After the first Nepomuk workshop in June being a great success[1] it is time 
to start the planning for the next one. In fact there will be two workshops 
before the end of the year: one dedicated to the open social semantic desktop 
and one general Nepomuk hands-on coding sprint for everyone interested in 
Nepomuk development.
This email is about the first one.


1. The Nepomuk Open Social Semantic Desktop

This workshop will be focused on the discussion of social features in Nepomuk 
and the integration with platforms such as OpenDesktop[2].

Today Nepomuk allows to handle local resources and data can not be exchanged 
with other users. The next step needs to be the integration of such 
functionality. It needs to be possible to define privacy parameters on Nepomuk 
information, to share Nepomuk data with other users, to integrate information 
from online sources, and to enrich online data with the information stored in 
Nepomuk.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together experts from the semantic 
desktop and ontology design as well as those from online services and peer to 
peer communication. Together the theoretical (and hopefully also 
technological) basis for an open social semantic desktop in KDE will be 
created.

Important projects related to this topic include Telepathy, Kopete, 
OpenDesktop, Silk[4], and Oscaf[3], the new desktop ontology project.

The workshop will take place in Freiburg, Germany again (it is just so 
convenient for me ;)

If you are interested in participating please add your name, email address, 
and the dates that are convenient for you to the Workshop wiki page[5].

Be aware that the e.V. is sponsoring the event for both travel and 
accommodation expenses.

I am looking forward to seeing you in Freiburg.

Regards,
Sebastian Trueg


[1] http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/the-first-nepomuk-workshop-its-a-
wrap/
[2] http://www.opendesktop.org
[3] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/
[4] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Silk
[5] 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk/OpenSocialSemanticDesktopWorkshop2009