Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar [LWN.net]

Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Posted Oct 12, 2006 22:33 UTC (Thu) by sjj (guest, #2020)
Parent article: Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

I don't get it. Isn't this total vaporware? Why is this LWN-worthy?

"The final system will be some sort of web service type thing with a web page and all the goodness that the kids today have hoped for."

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Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Posted Oct 13, 2006 3:16 UTC (Fri) by jdub (guest, #27) [Link] (2 responses)

It was a developer report from the recent Boston Summit, based on plans that were developed there. Not entirely sure why it's LWN-worthy yet myself, but it's cool work. :-)

Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Posted Oct 13, 2006 11:10 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

Naming it Echelon could have unintended consequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Rather a loaded term, in some circles.

Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Posted Oct 13, 2006 12:12 UTC (Fri) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link]

It's a system for distilling huge amounts of information spread over numerous communications systems into a usable state. They didn't call it Echelon by accident.

Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Posted Oct 13, 2006 7:41 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

It got me to look at http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ which was very interesting to get a peek into KDE development!