Re: [gnome-love] hello

[Ian McIntosh <ian_mcintosh linuxadvocate org>]

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