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title: Dashboard Roadmap
date: 2004-10-05T19:43:44Z
modified: 2004-10-05T19:43:44Z
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  - Product Announcements
timestamp: 2004-10-05T19:43:44Z
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  - Product Announcements
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Nat Friedman of Novell has created the following [roadmap](http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2004-October/msg00047.html) for the Dashboard project, which if you’re a newcomer to the blog (more folks signing up every day, interestingly – can’t imagine why 😉 and unfamiliar with it is a desktop information-aware application that dynamically presents relevant information to you. Typing an IM to a contact, for example, and Dashboard might retrieve emails from that contact, as well as documents, pictures and anything else relating to him/her. You can see it [here](http://www.nat.org/dashboard).

Though it gets suprisingly little attention, it’s a potential killer application in my view. The difficulty, as the roadmap outlines, is that it’s a complicated application with a lot of moving parts, meaning that a production release is hardly imminent. Still, the project’s shown enough that I’m going to try like hell to get to [GUADEC](http://live.gnome.org/Boston2004) this weekend to see it. If anyone wants to meet up there, drop me a line.

I had a Dashboard moment today when I was speaking to a reporter about a forthcoming product, and had to hunt through my rigid directory schema to find the accompanying material and notes on the release. Someday, I’m hoping Dashboard will do that for me.