Re: [gnome.org #10667] GNOME Membership Application of Jim Evins

["Mario BlÃttermann via RT" <membership-applications gnome org>]

Am Montag, den 25.01.2010, 15:25 +0000 schrieb Pedro Villavicencio via
RT: 
> Dear Mario BlÃttermann,
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee needs more information to
> process the application of Jim Evins. Since he has listed
> you as the primary contact, the committee would like you to list the
> contributions that  Jim Evins has made for the GNOME community in
> recent times. Your input will be greatly appreciated to help us to make
> a fair and informed decision in the granting or denying the applicant as
> a foundation member.
>
> At your service,
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> This message was sent via GNOME.org Request Tracker.

Jim Evins is a living example for continuous work on an application. For
almost ten years he is working on a special GNOME application for
designing and printing labels and business cards. Glabels is nowadays a
kind of  "industrial standard", and it is more mature and stable than
most other pieces of software. During all these years, a lot of
developers gave up their projects. But Jim is still present. And from
the early days on, he was using GTK for his work.

In recent times, he has moved his development from SourceForge to GNOME.
As a result, Glabels has got more translations and an up-to-date
documentation. Glabels provides an application which is fully compatible
to GNOME, which includes the GtkBuilder base and some interfaces to
other GNOME applications such as Evolution. In the nearest future,
perhaps with the Glabels v3.0 which is likely to come along with GNOME
v3, it could become a basic part of the GNOME Office Suite.

If anybody is worth to be a member of our foundation, he is.


Best Regards,

Mario



----------------------------------------------------
This message was sent via GNOME.org Request Tracker.