[gnome-love] development

[Sean Kelley <sean sweng gmail com>]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice on how best to be able to contribute to Gnome?  I actually manage a software team of C/C++ embedded developers in my profession.  My team is responsible for portable gps devices.  Some you know doubt have heard of.  I really like to stay current on new technologies.  So as a personal interest I enjoy developing software outside of work as well.   I have a keen interest in learning new application frameworks.  We frequently roll our own in the embedded world and there is much overlap sometimes in the desktop world.

What I find daunting is the pain of trying to build gnome from cvs.  I have no really big desire to start some major application.  Actually, I wouldn't mind a little low level work, assembly/drivers/kernel related stuff.  My background is an electrical engineer and low level developer.  I think I can answer my own original question in that I probably will look for an application that I use and have an idea on how to make a change for some feature/bug fix/etc.  I am intrigued by mono and gtkmm.  I tend to use more C++ and have dabbled in C# with the compact framework for example.

I speak Irish Gaelic and am fairly literate in it.  But honestly, translation is not something I would like to do.  Besides one should only translate into a native language.  Irish is not my first language.  I have been told that English is my first language, but some of my elementary school teachers my dispute that notion.  For fun I write little apps in gtkmm that assist in teaching some aspect of Irish.  But the apps I write are really more of a learning tool about gtkmm.

Anyway, Hi.

Sean