Experiments in GNOMEland

Well, now that I have a GNOME blog (woooo), I guess it’s time to start posting on it 🙂

Because I guess a personal presentation won’t interest a great number of people, I’ll limit it to : “I’m a French student currently in Chile finishing his studies”. I might also add that apart from programming I’m also interested in cooking as other people do. I also take any occasion to go hiking in the mountains. OK, I said I’d keep it short, let’s cut here then.

Basically, I start this blog because my mom other people encouraged me to do so, and because hopefully some of the projects I work on are used by other people, and these other people might be interested in the evolution of these projects.

Currently, I’m working mainly on Tracker, adding support for web miners. Web miners are modules that connect to some popular web services like Twitter or Facebook and make your online data accessible in a standardized form by storing it in Tracker (to be exact, it only stores metadata, downloading everything would be painful and useless).

If you’ve never looked at Tracker 0.7, I encourage you to do so. It’s a really fine piece of software written by some bright minds (not sure yet if I include myself in this group :-p).

My work was started as a summer of code, and I am now in the process of integrating it into the master branch of Tracker, polishing APIs and user interfaces.

Since I’d like to keep this post short, let’s say I’ll post more information in the posts to come. Cheers to all the GNOME community, and thanks for giving me this blog 🙂