GNOME Summary December 8-15 (Miguel wins FSF award, Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases, canvas cleanup, HAL applet, gnome-core prerelease, GOB release, Barnes and Noble event)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for December 8-15, 1999.

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 1)  Miguel wins free software award
 2)  Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases
 3)  Canvas cleanup in progress
 4)  HAL applet needs ideas
 5)  Test new gnome-core release
 6)  GOB release
 7)  Cary, NC Barnes and Noble event
 8)  Hacking Activity
 9)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  Miguel wins free software award

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Miguel was awarded the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software,
an impressive honor. Congratulations to Miguel!

The award itself is an interesting multicolored quilt:

  http://kurt.andover.net/bazar/fsf/P1010016.JPG

Slashdot coverage:

  http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/14/1743220.shtml

Gnotices comments:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945223410/index_html

The GNU press release:

  http://www.gnu.org/awards/1999.html

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 2)  Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases

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These three large application releases were announced on Gnotices:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/

This release of AbiWord now has GNOME support!

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 3)  Canvas cleanup in progress

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Federico is making giant strides with GnomeCanvas, in the
CANVAS_CLEANUP branch of the gnome-libs module. This will make
GnomeCanvas still more efficient and elegantly designed.

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 4)  HAL applet needs ideas

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Richard Hestilow insists that he needs feature ideas for his HAL applet. 
If you believe him (I don't :-) then send them to hestgray@ionet.net.

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 5)  Test new gnome-core release

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There's a prerelease of another stable series gnome-core package. If
you want to try it out, read here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-December/0352.shtml

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 6)  GOB release

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GtkObject creation system, saves you some typing:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-December/0030.shtml

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 7)  Cary, NC Barnes and Noble event

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There is a book signing/talk thing for my book at the Cary, NC Barnes and Noble
store on January 12 at 7:30. Mark your calendars!

Seriously, someone please come because I will feel like a loser if no
one does. :-) Cary Barnes and Noble has a large computer section and
is doing this event to promote the launch of a still larger section.

The store is at 760 SE Maynard.

Now we just have to get B and N to take my book out of the
"Programming Languages" section...

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 8)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, during this week)

 119 eider
  50 nautilus
  40 gtkhtml
  39 galway
  31 gnumeric
  29 gnome-libs
  28 gtk--
  27 gnome-core
  24 balsa
  22 gimp
  21 dr-genius
  20 bonobo
  13 gnomeicu
  13 evolution
  12 gnome-vfs
  10 eears

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, during this week)

  60 sopwith
  55 jrb
  44 unammx
  44 arios
  36 hp
  32 darin
  24 owen
  22 jirka
  19 ettore
  17 glaurent
  16 martin
  16 jberkman
  12 nat
  12 mmeeks
  12 kenelson
  10 giac

"eider" is the result of a little hacking party at RHAD Labs, because
Federico is leaving us to return to Mexico. It's an IDE written in
Python we started on Saturday. The idea is to glue existing components
(Emacs, Glade, Insight, automake) together with Python; it isn't
useful yet but it's kind of impressively far along given the amount of
time invested. Python + Glade = Rapid Development!
Anyway we most likely won't finish the prototype, at least not quickly, so if
someone wants to start hacking it please do.

In other news, we have the "nautilus" browser shell application, which
will embed the file manager, help browser, and maybe the control
center panels. Hacking is firing up in earnest on this component of
GNOME 2.0.

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 9)  New and Updated Software

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galway - web site editor
gIPSC - IP subnet calculator
ORBit-C++ - C++ support for ORBit
yank - notekeeper, TODO list
Pan - newsreader
gbox_applet - file watcher
sawmill - nice window manager for GNOME
Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client
CD Changer Applet - for CD jukeboxes
NetLeds applet - displays network load
Gfax - fax application
gProjectGenerator - creates source trees
Emma - money management program
gnometris - Tetris clone
gFTP - ftp client
AlGnomegebraic - algebraic calculator
gmap - map viewer
bug-buddy - graphical bug report utility
gnome_dialup - PPP utility
gvoc - vocabulary trainer
MicroC Install Browser - application installer
gsteak - English/German translator
vsa - visual sound analyzer

New versions of Dia and AbiWord are also out, but not on the software
map.  This AbiWord release includes GNOME support (it's not compiled
in to the binaries, but if you get the source and pass a flag to make
it will build with GNOME support).

See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next week - 

Havoc