Re: Bounties funded by Google, for GNOME

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi Quim,

Way to go on the first post ;)

Quim Gil a écrit :
> One of the bounties fits perfectly in one of the needs we detected in
> the Marketing BOF during the GUADEC:
>
> 4.500€ is a budget big enough that could be invested either in a huge
> PDF-book or in a more graphical and eye-candy presentation. Even
> assuming that developers should read thick documentation I think that
> nowadays it would be really useful to have a pretty cool visual (and
> interactove?) document with nice design and graphics for those stepping
> in the GNOME/GTK world for the first time. It would be also useful for
> all the GNOME fans (like me), that would have something to feel proud
> about and to send to programmers in our personal range of action.

A word of caution, while the GNOME page currently lists these as 
Bounties, this isn't the Google intention from looking at their Summer 
of code page. These are intended to be 2 to 3 month Summer projects 
(similar to internships) for students.

We haven't updated the page yet to correct the misunderstanding, but 
that will happen soon.

For the glossy document, I would love to start working with a publisher 
when this document gets finished, and try to get it on paper. A similar 
glossy user manual would also be rocking.

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
bolsh gimp org