Posted at 17:25 +1000
There's no doubt going to be a lot written about this (has been already): the GNOME desktop turns 10 this month. Like so many others, my thoughts on reading this were along the lines of "wow! has it been that long?" Reminisces follow...
Topics: software/GNOME
Posted at 19:59 +1100
Did the necessary work today so that I could register an informed vote for the GNOME Foundation Board. My involvement with GNOME these days is very much as a user and observer (and third party developer from time to time), so I wasn't completely up to date with what everybody was doing.
After having read through the mailing list postings from the candidates and combined it with what I knew of the people — I know about two thirds of them from personal experience and have had email contact with almost all of them over the years — I have to say I am very impressed with the quality of the candidates. Any seven from the list of eleven candidates would seem to work well as a group (at least, on paper). It's not an easy job, being a volunteer board member. So I wish all of ultimately successful candidates well in the coming year and am pulling for them to get some good stuff done.
Topics: software/GNOME
Posted at 20:26 +1000 (edited 10 Aug 2006, 10:18)
I've been spending a fair amount of time over the past couple of weeks thinking about features and guidelines and things that might work and things that shouldn't. Whilst wandering the web on Monday night, I came across an link I had made to an article on the Creating Passionate Users site. In particular, this graphic:
(Image used under Creative Commons license, from here )
This strikes a chord with me. It also helped me pull together what I had been thinking about. It did not help me write it down coherently, but let's see how this goes. Let's go for a (long, rambling) wander from the world of commercial software services to the world of open source project development. With references to writing from people with far more clues than me.
[Aside, or advance warning, at least: I'm not quite sure who the audience for this post really is, but if you find yourself thinking "why aren't they listening to me?" when trying to contribute to software development (whether as a developer, a writer, a bug triager, whatever), it may provide some food for thought. At a minimum, it should clarify some of my prejudices.]
Topics: software/django, software/GNOME