Hey, so... I'm aiming this email mostly at lurkers on the cc'd lists, who might want to find a starting point to jump in and help out. Requirements are confidence to email total strangers, ability to convincingly/politely ask those strangers to help, and good enough english to write up the results. Oh, and enough free time to do all this in the next 7 days. Should be lots of people like that on the list, I hope :) As most of you probably know, Google has funded the 'summer of code'(SoC), where gnome (among other projects) had 10 people sponsored to work on GNOME-related projects for the summer. Their work is nearly ready to wrap up, they and their work have not really been sufficiently publicized, and the next gnome-journal is nearly ready to publish. A match made in heaven. :) The basic idea here would be to do an overview of the successful SoC projects- describe the projects briefly, interview the authors briefly, ask what they found most fun, most challenging, how successful they feel they were in meeting their initial project goals, etc. Should be pretty easy- same basic questions and format for each hacker and piece, just need to track them down and ask the questions :) There is a list of the people and projects here: http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode Please email the marketing list if you plan on tackling this, so someone can help give you pointers to the right people on both sides (gnome-journal and SoC) and so we don't get a half-dozen people all emailing the SoC kids. Really hope someone can take this idea up and get us a kick-ass article for the next gnome-journal- would be great for the journal, a nice note for the hackers to end their summers on, and good for gnome to write up and publicize these things. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
