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{ Monthly Archives } October 2009

Playing with contextual relevancies in Zeitgeist (week 1)

So @Zeitgeist we took the liberty of experimenting of monitoring the document(window) focus of the user.

This is something I have been working on for  long long time. To cut it short. When monitoring the focus of items (items being websites, documents, notes, mostly anything), with time one can detect patters of document activities. We …

Moving my blog

I moved my blog from here to there.

Planning topics for the Zeitgeist hackfest

If you don’t know yet we are got a hackfest thanks too GNOME, TIS and Canonical. From the 9th to the 12th of November Zeitgeist and GNOME Activity Journal developers will meet up for 4 days of pure hacking and planning in Bolzano.

Right now from the engine side alot of planning has happened and …

Giving credit when credit is due (yet another Zeitgeist related rant)

One thing that makes FLOSS special is being able to credit people for their work. I would like to do so concerning Zeitgeist and GNOME Activity Journal (known as GNOME Zeitgeist).

A lot of people usually see me as the founder of the project. This is not all so true. I worked on a similar …

Ubuntu member at last

5 years after deploying “Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)” on my laptop back in November 2004, I have become an Ubuntu member. Thanks to all the awesome people who cheered for me and pimped up my wiki.This is more motivation to hack. Hopefully I will get more involved with community (especially in my country) as …

FLOSS in Egypt (and bits of the Middle-East)

Before reading please understand that this is my personal opinion and experience and those of other middle eastern FLOSS users and non-users. Although the post is called “FLOSS in Egypt” I think alot of the issues also occur in other Arabic countries as well as third world countries (not all). Here I am pointing …

Teamgeist: Zeitgeist + Telepathy

So yet another blog post about Zeitgeist. :P

During GCDS I went looking for some Telepathy hackers. I got Rob McQueen, John Carr, Federico and others in one room brainstorming a collaboartion platform using Zeitgeist + Telepathy. By the end of the night the prototype worked.

Now Collabora has put Youness Alaoui from aMSN fame and …

Docky using Zeitgeist

Here are the first attempts of Jason Smith to use Zeitgeist in Docky!
Watch this docky-zg

** PLEASE THANK JASON SMITH FOR HIS AWESOME WORK

Still a baby

One of the reasons why i don’t hang out on facebook much is my whole family is there…
My mom then posted a picture of me as a baby.. compared to now…

Looks wise: Not much has changed just grew teeth and got the distribution of hair has changed in my face. Basically losing them on …

Zeitgeist engine: A full year of developing new experience

It has been almost a year since Zeitgeist started. Last year on october 10th I hacked up a little timeline, based on Federico’s mockups and the old gimmie/mayanna code during the Boston UI summit. And ever since alot has happened. From a UI we developed an engine, and the project kept growing while the ideas just …