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I think the talk went quite well. Some of the interested folks didn’t show up, which is understandable, when we remember their merry state at the party last night (don’t worry, I still love you :)) - besides, we had a quite interesting talk with Jeff and Glynn about this at the famous ice cream bar yesterday, before the party. (By the way, the guy at the bar looks more happy every day, and there are still varieties we haven’t tried. Try the Roquefort icecream btw, if you are not easily scared, it rules.)

Anyway, interesting chatting around the subject, also with Robert of Telepathy fame. I think we need someone proficient with dbus and python/whatever and maybe sqlite to do a simple position service (freedesktop.org, maybe?) that can use either user input (”select city”), gps data from gpsd, plazes.com integration or some other future way of specifying location, holds the current location in a warm and fuzzy place and provides a simple API for applications to query for it. It should also log tracks with some sane interval so that one gets a “track record” of locations. The philosophy here would be: Give them the tools, they build cool stuff we never even dreamed about.
For those of you who werent in the talk, two food rations for the brain:

• Imagine if the world map of hackers in planet gnome was realtime? Like, currently we’d see this neat concentration of little dots in this little town of Villanova i Geltrú in Spain.. I would love that kind of stuff.
• Imagine searching “the presentation I wrote in London” with Beagle.

Wouldnt that rock? Interested folks, come talk to me and Henri. Check our photos in the program guide.

Update: Henri also blogged about the talk and also has the slides up for download for interested people.

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