Re: 3.18 topics: application revival

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Allan Day wrote:

> 4) A "GNOME apps" hackfest.
>
> 5) A "GNOME apps" online sprint - come up with a list of bugs and get
> designs in place. Advertise for volunteers and have people ready to
> review bugs.

I have experimented a bit today[1] and I'd like to add a middle ground
to this, with a kind of distributed small scale hackfests, say we'd
have a few cities at first, where around 5 persons would meet for a
day, and each gathering would focus on a single application.

This could get contributors from other modules to give energy to new
applications, bring new persons to development and give the necessary
shot to the new (or old) apps.

Of course I'd volunteer for Brussels or Paris (where we have good
relations with persons at the Mozilla offices).

This can be so low key I could just organize it by myself but we can
probably get more interest and people if we coordinate and advertise
this globally at first.


        Fred


[1] initially with GNOME Chat but as I didn't want to spend time
    looking around for Telepathy information, I fell back on hacking
    Empathy layout to match GNOME Chat. (and that's how I thought about
    a local gathering, so I could get all the Telepathy help I need...)
    <btw, https://www.0d.be/captures/20150419-empathy-to-chat.png>