Emmanuele Bassi commented:
@nmcgovern Short descriptions:
- Platform: The GNOME application development platform.
- Core: The core components of the GNOME SDK.
- Network: Network-related components of the GNOME SDK.
- Media: Audio, Video, and image processing.
- Language bindings: Use the GNOME SDK in various programming languages.
- Desktop: The GNOME desktop components.
- Applications: The GNOME application ecosystem.
- Community: The GNOME community.
Some rough ideas for long descriptions of the Platform sub-categories:
- Core: A place to discuss the core components of the GNOME software development platform: GLib, the low level C utility and portability library; GObject, the type system for object oriented programming in C; GTK, the GUI toolkit used GNOME; Pango, the text shaping and rendering library.
- Network: A place to discuss networking API in the GNOME platform: libsoup, glib-networking, librest, and libgdata.
- Media: A place to discuss multimedia libraries in the GNOME platform: gdk-pixbuf, Gegl, and GStreamer.
- Language bindings: A place to discuss the development of language bindings for the GNOME platform, as well as discussing the development of GNOME components and applications in various programming languages.