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[Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste@xxxxxxx>]

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On Jun 28, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Natan Yellin <aantny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Stormy,
> We'd love to do a usability study involving Zeitgeist in the future,  
> but I don't think that we're ready for that yet. Up until recently,  
> we've been focusing only on Zeitgeist's backend and our plans for  
> the GUI are just starting to be implemented.

ThAt is the best time to test! Before you spe nd time implementing a  
UI you're not sure is usable, you could test a throwaway prototype to  
make sure everything is ok. Once you start implementing.. It is much  
more difficult to implement recommendations from testing

~ Celeste

> Regards,
> Natan
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy@xxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> We've been talking about doing a usability study. Is this something  
> that benefit?
>
> Stormy
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Natan Yellin <aantny@xxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@xxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist says
>
> "Architecture
>
>    * Experiment with Tracker, Soylent, and Empathy.
>    * Use an RDF based backend to allow better semantic metadata.  
> (E.g. Automatically tag files edited at a given time with the name  
> of the Hamster project that was worked on at the same time.) "
>
> Do you know if they've got to the RDF piece yet?
> No, we haven't. (I'm the one who added that TODO item to the page  
> but I was busy with school exams until late last week.)
> As of now, we're planning on implementing it using Tracker 0.7  
> (which has a RDF store with support for SPARQL queries) as an  
> optional alternative to our own vanilla Sqlite backend.
>
> (I don't know if it's of any interest to you, but I also spoke to  
> David Barth from Canonical last week and he expressed an interest in  
> hacking together a CouchDB based backend in the coming weeks.)
>
> For more information, you might be interested in an article that I  
> wrote for the next edition of the GNOME Journal, which will be  
> published next month. The draft can be found online here.
>
> Regards,
> Natan
>
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