Last week (11 – 13 February) we held a Pathfinder project meeting. 20 people attended from 6 institutes (Uni.Tübingen, CWI, Uni.Twente, NFI Den Haag, Uni.Konstanz, ETH Zürich). We discussed about scalability, multiple front- and backends, full-text support, porting to MonetDB5, etc. Regarding the latter, we decided to indeed invest in porting Pathfinder to MonetDB5 starting in April. There were also a number of presentations. I presented the first attempts in adding spatial support to Pathfinder and Riham presented our ROX run-time join optimization approach for XQuery.