Re: GNOME Journal Issue 20 Kickoff

[Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> Now that Issue 19 is out, let's turn our attention to Issue 20, articles due 
> 10 May for a 1 June release.
>
> I have a few ideas:
> * Behind the Scenes with Marina Zhurakhinskaya (GNOME Shell engineer at Red 
> Hat)
> * A summary of the CSUN GNOME accessibility hackfest 
> [http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfest2010] - I saw a lot of PGO 
> blogposts
> * What's next, after GNOME 3.0?  What's the new vision?
>
> There are more ideas at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleWishlist of 
> course.  I've just removed some obsolete topics from that page.  And I'd like 
> to hear about the current status of these:
>
> * Paul's Behind the Scenes with Seif Lotfy of Zeitgeist
> * Sri's Seed overview
> * Paul's interview with the GNOME release team
>
> Ideas, raised hands, updates?

I'm reminded that Stormy Peters will do an interview with an Advisory 
Board member.  I've updated our submission queue 
(http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleSubmissionQueue) with that, but 
it's still pretty skimpy.

Paul and Sri, any updates on the articles you still have in progress?

Marina Zhurakhinskaya doesn't have time to write an article, but perhaps 
someone could interview her or another GNOME Shell contributor for a 
Behind the Scenes.  If you can arrange an IRC interview, and you prep your 
questions ahead of time, this is a pretty fast way to get material for an 
interesting article.  Anyone want to volunteer?

Marina notes:

"You can contact other people on the GNOME Shell team now or later to ask 
them about writing an article. They are Owen Taylor, Colin Walters, Jon 
McCann, Dan Winship, Maxim Ermilov, or Florian Mullner. The last two might 
be interesting because they are not part of the core team at Red Hat 
leading the project, but are our community heroes, as described in this 
post http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/02/06/action-pack :)."


And it might be a little early for this, but if anyone wants to aggregate 
several developers' answers to "what's GNOME's direction *after* 3.0?" 
then that would also be a fairly painless article to put together.  Again, 
any volunteers?

(I'm soliciting some other articles to work towards having least four 
pieces in by May 10th.)

Best,
Sumana Harihareswara
GNOME Journal release organizer