I know a couple folks were talking about something like this a few months ago, and I believe some code was even written- Shaun? There were even some less creepy names- heartbeat, maybe? :)
[Speaking as someone who wants to observe GNOME from afar, I'm intensely interested in seeing this go forward, so good luck.] Luis On 10/10/06, Patrick Wagstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > Does it sometimes feel like managing all your GNOME related information > is like drinking from a firehose? Are you disappointed with how > difficult it can be to find that marble of interesting projcet > information in the swimming pool of oatmeal that is the constant chatter > of GNOME worldwide? Are you looking for a better way to understand > what's hot in email, CVS, blogs, bugzilla, and still get all the useless > links off #gnome-hackers? > > Fortunately, there's creepy folks like me who have been tracking a lot > of that information. The problem has been how do we expose all this > information to everyone in a method that is beautiful and makes sense. > The answer, Echelon for GNOME. Echelon for GNOME is a project to make > sense of all this data. What's hot on Planet GNOME? Has there been a > really cool CVS commit in the past few days that you just need to check > out? With all the mailing list threads, wouldn't it be nice if I could > just see the ones that other people think are interesting? > > After discussing a myriad of ways that we could rip off KDE's English > Breakfast Network, we concluded that a digg like interface that can > bring all these things together would be a great innovation. That, is > the premise of Echelon for GNOME. Is it ambitious, probably. Is it > cool, yes! Can we actually use the term "digg" for when we find > something cool, probably not. Instead, we'll VERB it (where verb is > something like excavate, drill, stomp, flag, shimmy, dance, shake, etc). > > Interested? Me too. I've put a brief wiki page with some of the > discussion notes at http://live.gnome.org/Boston2006/EchelonForGnome > Feel free to look and modify it. > > --Patrick > > -- > devel-announce-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
