Re: Hello and suggestions

[Marc Hanisch <dubst3pp4 googlemail com>]

Hey Diego, hello Stormy,

2010/4/2 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org> wrote:

Hi Marc!,

El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 11:00 +0200, Marc Hanisch escribió:

> Hello list,
>
> my name is Marc Hanisch and I'm a professional (in the terms of
> payed ;-)) web developer from Germany.
> I want to contribute to the Gnome project in several ways and would be
> glad to spread the word about gnome :-)
>

Welcome! You'll see that lately some topics are being discussed, take a
few days to "lurk around" and feel free to offer opinions or taking up a
task.

Welcome, Marc! If you have any questions, let us know.

Thanks for the warm welcome :-)
 

> I saw the the GnomeOnWindows[1] list and I'm wondering why GNU Cash
> isn't listed there?
> The compability list for Mac OS X seems to be outdated, as Gnumeric
> works very very well on Mac OS X, Pidgin is available via MacPorts,
> too and I think Evolution isn't maintained by Novell for Mac OS X
> anymore...
>

I think those could be your first contributions!
 

Feel free to edit the wiki if you have more accurate and updated
information. I guess that GNU Cash is not there because it's not
absolutely a GNOME app, but I wouldn't be so sure... anyone knows what's
the criteria?

I think GNU Cash should be listed there. It is a useful app used by many GNOME users.

So I made some changes to the Wiki list above and added GnuCash. Although Novell doesn't seem officially to provide any Mac OS X builds of Evolution anymore, it is available through the Fink project whereas it's not in the MacPorts project.

I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the non technical enduser wouldn't notice all the powerfull unix tools behind but could use it.

Maybe there are other Mac OS X users on the list, so we could discuss what applications are must-have-items on OS X and how to provide such a package or CD of Gnome?!

I would also appreciate two simple but well designed webpages for Windows and Mac OS X users (like the Gnome release pages) to show the benefits of using Gnome on other operating systems than Unix / Linux / BSD. There could be a little help on installing Gnome and a link to the packages... Any interests?

Best regards,
Marc