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Re: Who is Marcus Furlong?
by Marcus Furlong on Thursday 16/Mar/2006, @09:17

Hello all,

Better introduce myself properly, my college webpage is automagically
generated and I've never used it as you might have guessed. I am a
postgraduate student in Trinity College and a long-time KDE user. I've
been using KDE since KDE 1 and I am an active advocate (the usual
suspects; family, friends and anywhere I have worked). I'm also going
to be updating the KDE Ireland website, as Barry has been quite busy
over the last few months.

While I have not been involved in KDE development, I am currently
doing research on metadata generation and retrieval and the hope is to
develop a prototype KDE frontend based on this work. What I'm doing is
similar to DBFS (http://ozy.student.utwente.nl/projects/dbfs/) without
the SQL part, as we hope to store the keywords at the filesystem
level. This probably all falls under the scope of the Tenor project,
but at the moment I am evaluating and experimenting with different
algorithms, so desktop integration comes later.

About Trinity itself, around the CS department in college there are
plenty of machines that run KDE, both staff and students. We have a
lot a Unix machines in all the CS labs and most of the students run
KDE in any of the classes that I am assistant in. The local aKademy
organising team consists of a lot of people who are interested in free
software in general and while I don't think any of them develop for
KDE (although there is one guy who gets his students to use QT for his
C++ class), many of them are also happy users and are ready to help
out in any way possible. Also, there are members of the IFSO who are
staff in Trinity and they are delighted that we are hosting the
conference.

So apologies for the blank webpage, I'll get around to updating it one of
these days. And welcome to everyone who will be in Dublin for aKademy 2006,
I can't wait to meet so many KDE contributors and I'm sure we'll have a
great time and help make KDE even better than it is now!

Marcus.

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Re: Who is Marcus Furlong?
by infopipe on Friday 17/Mar/2006, @11:15

thank you for the infos

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Re: Who is Marcus Furlong?
by Gonzalo on Saturday 18/Mar/2006, @09:44

Marcus,

Thank you for welcoming everyone to Ireland. I think this upcoming conference will be a real turning point for KDE and the free desktop and I understand and appreciate all the hard work that you will have to put in to organize an event as complex as a KDE conference.

So thank you for making it happen and pass on our appreciation to the staff and faculty of Trinity College.

Regards,

Gonzalo

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Re: Who is Marcus Furlong?
by Alan Horkan on Saturday 18/Mar/2006, @10:03

Were you an undergraduate at Trinity too?

How can people get involved and help out?

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