Welcome JP! Firstly, thanks for the kind words. Something very strange has started to happen with Gimmie over the last few weeks... people are starting to pay attention to it again! I've gotten lots of email and pokes from people in #gimmie (on irc.gimp.org) wondering what's up and excited about the project.
I'm quite surprised by this, as I haven't touched Gimmie much since I got caught up in Pyro development. But Gimmie is close to my heart, and I'm psyched to see if we can get some momentum rolling on it again. :-) JP, the contributions you're offering are actually what Gimmie needs most right now: project management, marketing, and outreach. Bugzilla is full of old bugs for versions before 0.2.7 that need to be cleaned up. The Wiki has a tiny intros for developers, but not much to help people come up to speed on the internals. Generally, we're not communicating a consistent direction for Gimmie, or explaining why it's a good solution to desktop navigation. Regular releases and release planning are missing as well. This is all stuff I'm terrible at in my open source endeavors, partly because I get my fill from my day job ;-) I'm excited to help move Gimmie forward. I just need some help to feel like it's something that people care about, and which has a story for broader adoption given some of the alternatives out there. A good example to look at for organizing and steering a project is Tomboy. When I handed over Tomboy to Boyd about a year or so ago, the first things he did were to start organizing places for developers to talk about ideas, and set a consistent release path. A good place for you/us to start might be to talk to Boyd about the steps he took. Thanks, -Alex On 8/17/07, JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Per Alex G., I'm introducing my self to the Gimmie development > community and offering my services where needed. > > I stumbled upon Gimmie earlier this week and fell in love. I'd like to > see the Gimmie get to fully functional mode. However, I've never > worked on a Linux application before, but I'll get up to speed > quickly. I work as a support/systems analyst, not a developer so I > offer these skills: > * Documenting use cases and where possible creating sequence diagrams > (I don't know how technical I can get. Python is so dif from Java. > * Objectively analyzing ideas, features, > * Do Bugzilla work > * Create Documentation and edit the Wiki > * Marketing? I don't think many people know about Gimmie. And those > who do are impressed. > > I'd like to see Gimmie be the premier applet/dock of choice in Gnome. > I feel that projects like Gimmie are what it takes to help Gnome reach > it's 10% desktop market by 2010 goal http://live.gnome.org/10x10. > > JP > > _______________________________________________ > Gimmie-List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/gimmie-list-beatniksoftware.com > _______________________________________________ Gimmie-List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/gimmie-list-beatniksoftware.com
