Miguel was previously named one of the Technology Review Top 100 Young
Innovators of the Year, but now he's been named _the_ Number One Young
Innovator of the Year. See the article here:
http://www.techreview.com/tr100/pr2.html
news.gnome.org article is here, if you want to post comments, etc.:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946478632/index_html
Some GNOME hackers (George, Elliot, Miguel) wrote up an article about
GNOME and future plans for Linux Journal; it's now made its way
online:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3754.html
Ali Abdin did an email interview with many GNOME developers, posted
here:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945331082/index_html
About a week later he posted more responses from some late-replying
developers:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946276088/index_html
We need volunteers for keeping GNOME packages up-to-date. Debian and
Red Hat packages have official maintainers (though both could maybe
use volunteer help, if you mail them); most of the other distributions,
as well as non-Linux distributions (*BSD, Solaris) need volunteers.
To work on GNOME packaging, sign up for the gnome-packaging-list
mailing list; you might have a look at the list archives as well.
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/
Use GNOME to write Logo code! Fun and educational!
Seriously, this is a nice program for schools and such. Have a look:
http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/glogo/
The long-quiet Balsa project made a release:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945835198/index_html
Looking nice!
A sound synthesis engine and GUI from GTK+ co-maintainer Tim Janik. If
nothing else, an authoritative source of Correct GTK+ Programming
examples. :-) Personally I can't make heads or tails of all these
dials and buttons, but lots of people who know about sound have been
giving rave reviews. Read about it here:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946616649/index_html
Quick screenshot link:
http://beast.gtk.org/beast-shot1.png
James announced a new Dia release:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946131539/index_html
We have GNOME patches for the CTWM window manager:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945747290/index_html
Increasingly hard to think of a WM _without_ GNOME hints support.
New version of libxml, with better C++ compatibility and an improved
HTML parsing module.
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945534306/index_html
I made a lightweight C++ wrapper prototype called Sugar (well, this is
sort of a second prototype; the first one was done by hand, this one
is script-generated). See announce here:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list/2000-January/0012.shtml
Feedback requested (please read the mailing list thread and the Sugar
README first though).
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary)
132 gimp
98 gnumeric
80 gnome-db
78 nautilus
68 libgtop
60 balsa
55 gtk--
51 gnome-core
49 gtkhtml
46 galway
46 beast
40 gnomeicu
37 gnome-libs
33 dr-genius
24 gnome-pim
24 eider
24 dia
23 gnome-vfs
21 eears
20 achtung
19 mc
18 gob
17 gxsnmp
16 evolution
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary)
79 martin
76 rodrigo
58 arios
54 hp
53 timj
48 jirka
45 unammx
43 mmeeks
42 sopwith
41 kenelson
36 neo
32 kmaraas
31 rasta
31 ettore
30 jwise
30 cactus
27 jody
26 kabalak
22 nilsb
22 jrb
21 jamesh
19 mathieu
19 darin
18 mitch
18 jesusb
17 peterw
17 mback
16 sullivan
15 yasuhiro
15 pcg
15 jpr
15 jborg
15 cwryu
Over 50 new software releases since the last summary!
screem - website editor
gnome-tcl - Tcl binding for GTK/GNOME
CORBA::ORBit - Perl bindings for CORBA (via ORBit, the GNOME ORB)
gvoc - vocabulary trainer
GNOME Particle Simulator - simulates particles
GnomePM - portfolio manager
Gnofract 4D - fractal generator
gBackground - changes window background
gob - GtkObject generation language
Oregano - circuit simulator
BEAST/BSE - sound engine and synthesizer GUI
vsa - displays cool graphs based on your sound output
SodiPodi - vector graphics program
Gnome ReadNews - yet another news client
graphtool - generate graphs and plots
gbox_applet - mailbox watcher
MonitorSensors - displays sensor data from lm_sensors
GPPP-dialer - PPP dialer app
Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client
gecco - GNOME extensible configuration console
PuzzleSquare - numbers game
gLife - game of Life
URL Collector - stores URLs
efx - xmms effect plugin loader for esound
RadioActive - video4Linux interface
Panel-- - C++ wrapper for panel applet lib
groach - return of xroach
GuiSlp - Stampede package manager
gMiniCppEnvironment - mini-IDE
Finder - Mac-style finder bar
GIP - GNOME install project
dia - tool for drawing diagrams
gnuTaxes - tax preparation application
GMatH - math environment
CCView - C++ project browser
GTransferManager - retrieve multiple files from the web
Gnome Darxite Client - Darxite client
GTetrinet - clone of Windows game Tetrinet
TimeClock - time clock program
GNOME Transcript - database client
Eucalyptus - Email client
VDKBuilder - GTK/GNOME RAD tool, in tradition of Delphi
GtkExText - enhanced text widget
gtkdiff - diff frontend
gnome-db - GNOME database library and widgets
Balsa - mail client
irssi - IRC client
ORBit-CPP - C++ bindings for ORBit
sawmill - nice window manager
m3gtk - Modula 3 bindings for GTK
GnomeICU - ICQ client
Sarah - simple file manager
GnomeHack - GUI for nethack (works great!)
gnome-8ball - magic 8 ball applet
CD changer applet - for your CD jukebox
gFTP - ftp client
galway - web page editor
gIPSC - subnet calculator
See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.
Until next week -
Havoc