Re: ghop

2008-01-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:29:23AM -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: I think gnome-love and gnome-contest (or whatever) should be separate things. The nice thing about ghop was that it pulled in new people who would not otherwise have been interested, by motivating them with a contest

Re: ghop

2008-01-27 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Olav Vitters wrote: I find it a bit strange to have the Foundation pay for something like this. If you don't like GNOME, then you get money. If you do, then you should work for free? Same for e.g. non-sexy (gnome-love/GHOP) bugs. Someone should still pay attention to those. ... No objection

Re: ghop

2008-01-26 Thread Richard Stallman
For people who don't know what GHOP is: http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/ It looks like a useful and worthwhile activity, but that page describes GNOME as an open source project. Would you please ask them to describe GNOME as a free software project, and to talk about free

ghop

2008-01-24 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
My thanks to whoever arranged for gnome's participation in ghop! It was great as a coding exercise, and great as a PR/outreach exercise. I found it extremely valuable for roping in contributions to gthumb, to implement features that were beyond my areas of expertise (e.g., calling exiv2's C

Re: ghop

2008-01-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008, à 08:49 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak a écrit : My thanks to whoever arranged for gnome's participation in ghop! It was great as a coding exercise, and great as a PR/outreach exercise. I found it extremely valuable for roping in contributions to gthumb