Re: Next edition

["Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek chauhan gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:
> There are some other ideas as well:
>
>  Development related:
>  * Vala article
>  * Clutter article
>  * Webkit
>  * Project Ridley
>  * GIO/GVFS

There's also the rewritten GDM 2.22 (which sadly missed the release schedule).

>
>  Applications:
>  * Gourmet Recipe Manager
>  * Gramps and/or GWintree genealogy match up
>  * Any other cool applications out there?

Gnome-Do! [0]
PackageKit! Kenvandine was working on this iirc :-)
There's also the new 0.7 release of NetworkManager which apparently
cures cancer[1] ;-)

>
>  I think we should be concentrating some effort on applications that are
>  innovative and exciting.  It would help motivate developers.
>
>  We should actively try to find people who can write these articles.
>  I've been burned out a bit since I've been writing 2-3 papers a week and
>  I'm sick of writing. :-)  I'd like to pull off a release this month if
>  we are able.  What do you guys think?  Can we make an effort to do this?
>  I'll be free for the rest of this month after tomorrow.  While I could
>  write articles it would be kind of wierd to have a release of only
>  articles written by me.

I'm interested in writing an article on GVFS -- the maintainer's
courage (mammoth task), people's hopes for it (oh $deity save us from
gnome-vfs), it's near-fall (ftp backend regression), and the heroic
comeback _just in time_ for release :^)
I basically want to map gvfs' path from proposal to release.

However, I'm in the middle of exams right now, which will be followed
by a week of vacation back home with limited connectivity. I'll work
on it at home as much as I can, but as a contingency plan, can it be
squeezed in somehow around the late end of the month?

>
>  Also see if we can find what other things people are doing around the
>  GNOME neighborhood I'm sure there is some interesting stuff that is
>  below the radar.

There's this nifty little Mono app (hacked during the last Novell
Hackweek)[2] called "Tasky"[3] with integration into Google Calendar,
Tomboy, and Remember The Milk.
I think this app has a lot of potential :-)

0. http://do.davebsd.com/
1. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/10/15/networkmanager-07-is-the-new-chuck-norris/
2. http://boyd.musipal.com/2008/02/tasky-cracks-whip.html
3. http://code.google.com/p/tasky/

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~Nirbheek Chauhan