Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

[Duncan]

Kevin Krammer posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:36:32 +0100 as excerpted:

> It (Nepomuk) was an EU research project. The KDE part is actually just
> one of several research deliveries, called Nepomuk-desktop IIRC:
> One of the participating companies, Mandriva, was responsible for that
> part of the work and hired Sebastian Trüg to do it.
> He's now working for the company producing Virtuoso but doesn't have
> much time for work on Nepomuk-KDE.
> Fortunately, Vishesh Handa, one of KDE's Google Summer of Code students
> who worked on Nepomuk-KDE as part of GSOC, took over maintainership a
> while ago and is now (very recently) employed by Blue Systems to work on
> Nepomuk-KDE pretty much full time.
> 
> Some of the non-code research deliverables, e.g. semantic ontologies,
> are being used by other projects as well, e.g. tracker.

Thanks for the details. =:^)

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