Sriram, Thanks! I was looking at GNOME Music source code a bit last night since it was the only one listed as developed in python. I will definitely reach out to Allan about GNOME Chat. I have a fair bit of experience with js as well with all the web development I do for work, so I could definitely contribute on that front.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Marc! Welcome aboard! Have you considered GNOME Music? It is > written in Python. You can mail Allan Day to see where GNOME Chat is, > and say you would like to help. In general, we've been focusing on > javascript for the core apps, but hey we'll take what we can get! :) > > sri > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Marc Thomas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey everyone! > > > > I've been itching to start contributing to Gnome for about a year now but > > had to many other projects/commitments to finish up first. Well those > > commitments are now in the support phase and without some new project to > > spend my time on I might just go crazy! > > > > My background: > > Most of my development experience is in Python and web development. I > love > > working on both native and web based applications. I have some background > > working with GTK+ and Glade, though I've spent more time recently working > > with PyQt due to cross platform requirements. By day I work as a web > > developer at a local college and by night I hack on various projects for > > various communities. I am the organizer of the Northfield Linux User > group > > (www.norlug.org) and the Technical Commanding Officer in the Hellbound > > Soldiers gaming community. Basically I handle most all of their software > > development, automation, and general administrative stuff. I exclusively > run > > Linux on all my computers, both personal (Arch) and work (Ubuntu GNOME), > and > > a local advocate for Linux and indirectly GNOME. > > > > I've been researching various Core Apps that I'd like to get involved in. > > The one that jumped out at me at first was Gnome Chat (not empathy). > > Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's made it out of the design phase > yet > > (https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Chat). My first question is whether > or > > not this project is going to need developers in the near future? > > > > If Gnome Chat is not an active project yet, then my second thought was > > basically to go wherever the most need is. I haven't used C much since > > college, but as we all know, it's pretty easy to pick up/refresh a > language > > when needed. > > > > You will find links below to my various online identities including my > > personal website and my Github account. > > > > Thanks for making GNOME awesome, and I look forward to contributing to > it's > > awesomeness! > > > > -- > > Website : Google+ : Twitter : GitHub > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-love mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > > > -- Website <http://mathomaste.ch> : Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/103260909450809151378/about> : Twitter <https://twitter.com/mathomastech> : GitHub<https://github.com/mathomastech>
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