Hi Arren, > I'm a programmer with a little of gtk experience. What can I do for > gnome?
Good question. The answer depends on your interests. If you're into Free Software for the social-good aspect, you could help in the effort to reduce GNOME memory usage[1]. Not particularly glamorous, but I think it may end up helping the most people (not sure why? see the link). Along the same lines, you could find something on this list[2] to investigate and fix. Plenty of Free software authors would love help. You could pick an app that's *almost* great and make it great. There are always bugs to fix in GNOME's bugzilla[3]. If you fix bugs in something like Nautilus, your fixes would be used by just about everyone, which is pretty cool. Or you could start your own project. Many recommend against doing this as a first step. If you decide to do this, I suggest something new (not competing with another OSS project) and *tiny*, just enough to learn a technology or two. My first OSS project was to write a gtk/gnome screen ruler[4], and I think that worked out well. If you don't know what to write, you can look for some cool little OSX application and clone it. :) Hope this helps! Regards, -Ian [1] http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction [2] http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2005/04/11/ubuntu [3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ [4] http://linuxadvocate.org/projects/gruler _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
