Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google+

2014-03-15 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Daniel Foré wrote: > Hey everyone, > > As you've probably noticed, many of us are spending more and more time > interacting on G+ and Launchpad only and less time on IRC, the ML, etc. This > is because IRC and the ML suck and it's 2014 where we want to share things

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
This is a good point, and it is a universal challenge (in both open source and proprietary projects). It needs effort. But there must be correlation between successful projects and well-documented ones: If actively try to lower the barrier one needs to overcome to start working with elementary (bo

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-18 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
knowing there is someone to > assist me if I get stuck. > > Pepijn > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Nikos Vasilakis > wrote: > > Thanks, David. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes > wrote: > > We decided not to apply given that we need to give h

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-18 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Nikos Vasilakis wrote: > I believe you wanted to reply to all (which I do). > > I agree. In general, I believe that our contribution guidelines are > broken. For coders in particular, heading to the developer section of > the website has a light

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Thanks, David. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes wrote: > We decided not to apply given that we need to give higher focus to > stabilizing our current projects and not just writing a bunch of new ones. > > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Nikos Vasilakis > w

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
more easily discoverable though. >>> This was a good start: >>> http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html >>> >>> Elementary's new motto: There's a PPA for that! >>> >>> But... what's wro

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Also, we have something similar, I believe: https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tristan Petersen wrote: > Pepijn, > > Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview app? It > does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to quickly anno

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Time Machine (was Google Summer of Code Ideas)

2014-02-12 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Thanks Sergey, I thought moving the associated ticket to wontfix brought up the issue of finding a suitable solution. What's the current status? Nikos On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff wrote: > FYI we already have a time machine application, Cronopete. The interestin

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Great application everyone, I made a number of textual refinements to the GSOC text, hopefully beneficial! Someone with edit capability could pull them in the text (if the GSOC-related people agree). I haven't gone through the ideas yet. I will try to do it tonight and work on a "snapshots/time-m

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] GSoC (again)

2014-02-04 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Thanks for reminding us Raphael, First, did we get any feedback last year? If we did, we should definitely work towards this direction. I am not an expert in GSoC applications, but my feeling is that we have *many* and *small* targets. Although important, most of the targets in the "idea page" ha

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] This might be a farewell

2013-09-27 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Hey guys, > > As some (if not most) of you already noticed, I don't frequently do > elementary-related development or even show up on IRC anymore. I find > myself more and more out of the loop as time p

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Basing elementary on latest and greatest pieces of software

2013-07-10 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Ah, sorry, I did not mean to press you, just ask as a way to identify were help is needed. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Cody Garver wrote: > I'm working on it, I'd like to have it deployed by 14.04 but no promises. > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Nikos Vas

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Basing elementary on latest and greatest pieces of software

2013-07-09 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Hey Cody, what do we need in order to get our own repo and automated build infrastructure? Is it a hardware issue? Cheers, Nikos On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Cody Garver wrote: > Debian builds are possible when we get our own repo and automated > build infrastructure. > > Sent from my iPh

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Beta2 review from Dedoimedo

2013-05-18 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Ah, thank you both! On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Aditya Vaidya wrote: > I think this is the one he was talking about: > > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/elementary-beta.html > > > Sincerely, > kroq-gar78 > > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Nikos Vasi

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Beta2 review from Dedoimedo

2013-05-18 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
I don't seem able to locate it! I even searched for "dedoimedo elementary beta luna". Would you be so kind as to share a url? Thanks! Nikos On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:52 PM, ttosttos Sa wrote: > Folks, > > Do a quick search for elementary OS on Google and second link should be > dedoimedo's rev

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Farewell, Sort Of

2013-04-02 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
haha Cassidy, it's was a good one! I couldn't stop reading! On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > I hate the few days after the 1st of April. I never know if I can trust > what I read. > > > 2013/4/2 David Gomes > >> Oh you Cassidy, almos

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] ElementaryOS meets Productivity Suite

2013-02-26 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
an a productivity >> suite. If you really want to work on one, I recommend LibreOffice, I think >> they're moving in the right direction. >> >> David "Munchor" Gomes >> >> On Feb 26, 2013 3:53 AM, "Nikos Vasilakis" wrote: >>> >>

[Elementary-dev-community] ElementaryOS meets Productivity Suite

2013-02-25 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Hello everyone, Great work! I fell in love with eOS from the very first contact:) I have a question though: how does elementaryOS plan on "attacking" the productivity suite issue (e.g., word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools)? Are there any developers working towards a vala-based sol