Re: [gnome-women] Interested in Outreach Program for Women

[Christina Boumpouka <hmpoumpouka gmail com>]

Thank you both for the detailed info!

I'll try to get started as soon as possible.

Christina

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Danielle Madeley
<danielle madeley collabora co uk> wrote:
> Hi Christina,
>
> The Empathy IRC channel is #empathy on irc.gnome.org. If you have a
> specific issue you're looking to solve someone can help you out there.
> Guillaume (cassidy on IRC) is the Empathy maintainer, so can probably
> point you in the direction of easier bugs to fix. I am 'danni' on IRC,
> feel free to get in touch for any reason.
>
> Some things that appear to be Empathy bugs (or limitations) are really
> Telepathy bugs or limitations. Someone should be able to point you in
> the right direction (working on Telepathy isn't really any harder to
> working on Empathy).
>
> The Empathy website is here: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy which
> contains build instructions etc. Building Empathy is a lot like building
> other GNOME components. If you get stuck, ask on IRC.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Roadmap is a list of the bigger items we
> are working on.
>
> Translation for Empathy is handled through the GNOME Translation
> Project, who I think hang out on #i18n on irc.gnome.org.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --danni
>
> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 19:03 -0500, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
>> Hi Christina,
>>
>> Thank you for your interest in the program! We haven't defined the
>> application process yet, but I will e-mail the list and you personally
>> when we do.
>>
>> If you have time, you can start learning and contributing to the
>> projects you are interested in in the meantime, which will put you in
>> a great position when applying for the Outreach Program for Women or
>> for the Google Summer of Code.
>>
>> Perhaps, Danielle or Guillaume can chime in with some pointers on how
>> to get involved with the Empathy project.
>>
>> As for the GNOME Shell project, here is a step-by-step list I've put
>> together for learning and starting to contribute to it. There is
>> definitely a lot of the coding and design work that can be done for
>> the project. I also included a link that explains how to contribute
>> translation. To my surprise, it doesn't look like GNOME Shell has been
>> translated to Greek yet.
>>
>> Step 1. Join #gnome-shell channel on irc.gnome.org
>> This is where people talk about GNOME Shell and where you can ask
>> questions when you need to find out how to do something or want to
>> decide what to work on next. The etiquette of IRC is such that you
>> don't need to say "hi" when you join and you can lurk in the channel
>> for a while until you have a specific question or want to share your
>> view in a discussion. So just joining a channel is pretty
>> non-committal. The channel is a bit quieter over the weekend and
>> usually has some discussion going on during the day on weekdays.
>>
>> Step 2. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#building
>> Follow these instructions to build GNOME Shell on your system. This
>> build process creates a directory with the code for several modules
>> relevant to GNOME Shell, as well as the gnome-shell module itself.
>>
>> Step 3. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Tour and
>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
>> Play around with GNOME Shell by running it and go over the Tour and
>> Cheat Sheet pages to make sure you know about most features. The
>> screenshots on the pages might look a little different from what you
>> see because of the rapid development, but they are pretty accurate.
>>
>> Step 4. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Development
>> Go over the information and the links on the development page to learn
>> about all the code components of the GNOME Shell. Try to make a simple
>> change (like change a color for some component or change animation
>> behavior) and restart the shell to see your change.
>>
>> Step 5. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design
>> Go over the design document and the recent mockups linked to from this
>> page to understand the design goals and the planned feature set.
>>
>> Step 6. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-shell
>> Select a bug report you want to create a patch for. A bug report can
>> contain a bug or a feature request. You can also create your own bug
>> report. The number next to "Total Bugs" links to all the open bugs and
>> the number next to "GNOME-love bugs" links to the open bugs that are
>> good for a beginner to start with. You can ask me on IRC or via e-mail
>> about what bug is a good one to start with when you are ready and we
>> will think of something. I would generally expect that you would have
>> a lot of questions when you are setting up or working on your first
>> bugs, so don't hesitate to ask them!
>>
>> Step 7. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#communication-resources and
>> http://planet.gnome.org
>> In addition to IRC, there are other ways to keep up with the project,
>> such as the mailing list, Identi.ca or Twitter, Bugzilla updates, and
>> commit updates. You can browse or subscribe to them as you decide on
>> your level of involvement in the project. Beyond the GNOME Shell
>> project, Planet GNOME is an aggregator of blogs of people involved
>> with GNOME in general and is a good place to find out what people are
>> working on and what other projects are out there.
>>
>> Step 8. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Translations and
>> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages
>> This page details how to create a translation for GNOME Shell. The
>> process is pretty similar for creating a translation for other GNOME
>> modules and you can get involved with contributing translations for
>> other modules through your language translation team.
>>
>> Feel free to ask me any questions you might have about GNOME Shell and
>> I'll keep you posted about the program!
>>
>> Marina
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christina Boumpouka" <hmpoumpouka gmail com>
>> To: gnome-women-list mail gnome org
>> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:07:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: [gnome-women] Interested in Outreach Program for Women
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Christina Boumpouka, I'm an electronics and computer
>> engineer, currently pursuing a phd in distributed systems. I run into
>> the Gnome Women Outreach Program today and was intrigued, so here I
>> am.
>>
>> I haven't really understood how the program works...so I will just
>> list the roles I could play and the projects I'm interested in and
>> maybe someone can help me narrow the list by providing availability
>> info for the projects.
>>
>> I'm mostly interested in software development and user interface
>> design, but I guess I can also contribute as a tester or provide greek
>> translations.
>> The projects I'm interested in are Gnome Shell and Empathy.
>>
>> Christina
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> Danielle Madeley
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