Re: [gnome-love] New Developer

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Marc Thomas <jazzyflute gmail com> wrote:
> Sriram,
>
> Thanks! I was looking at GNOME Music source code a bit last night since it
> was the only one listed as developed in python. I will definitely reach out
> to Allan about GNOME Chat. I have a fair bit of experience with js as well
> with all the web development I do for work, so I could definitely contribute
> on that front.

That's awesome!  Feel free to contact me if you run into any issues.

sri

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> wrote:
> > Hi Marc!  Welcome aboard!  Have you considered GNOME Music?  It is
> > written in Python.  You can mail Allan Day to see where GNOME Chat is,
> > and say you would like to help.  In general, we've been focusing on
> > javascript for the core apps, but hey we'll take what we can get! :)
> >
> > sri
> >
> > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Marc Thomas <jazzyflute gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hey everyone!
> > >
> > > I've been itching to start contributing to Gnome for about a year now
> > > but
> > > had to many other projects/commitments to finish up first. Well those
> > > commitments are now in the support phase and without some new project to
> > > spend my time on I might just go crazy!
> > >
> > > My background:
> > > Most of my development experience is in Python and web development. I
> > > love
> > > working on both native and web based applications. I have some
> > > background
> > > working with GTK+ and Glade, though I've spent more time recently
> > > working
> > > with PyQt due to cross platform requirements. By day I work as a web
> > > developer at a local college and by night I hack on various projects for
> > > various communities. I am the organizer of the Northfield Linux User
> > > group
> > > (www.norlug.org) and the Technical Commanding Officer in the Hellbound
> > > Soldiers gaming community. Basically I handle most all of their software
> > > development, automation, and general administrative stuff. I exclusively
> > > run
> > > Linux on all my computers, both personal (Arch) and work (Ubuntu GNOME),
> > > and
> > > a local advocate for Linux and indirectly GNOME.
> > >
> > > I've been researching various Core Apps that I'd like to get involved
> > > in.
> > > The one that jumped out at me at first was Gnome Chat (not empathy).
> > > Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's made it out of the design phase
> > > yet
> > > (https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Chat). My first question is whether
> > > or
> > > not this project is going to need developers in the near future?
> > >
> > > If Gnome Chat is not an active project yet, then my second thought was
> > > basically to go wherever the most need is. I haven't used C much since
> > > college, but as we all know, it's pretty easy to pick up/refresh a
> > > language
> > > when needed.
> > >
> > > You will find links below to my various online identities including my
> > > personal website and my Github account.
> > >
> > > Thanks for making GNOME awesome, and I look forward to contributing to
> > > it's
> > > awesomeness!
> > >
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