Re: [gnome-love] New Developer



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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