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GNOME 3.0 & beyond

• A new developer's guide to developing in Javascript
• Accessibility: one step backwards for two steps forwards
• The GNOME 3.x roadmap and what you can do to help

Note: GNOME Journal can play a strong role in introducing GNOME 3.0 concepts to both users and developers.

Accessibility

A future GnomeJournal issue will focus on accessibility. Some articles we'd like to see:

• How and why GNOME 3 is awesome a11y-wise
• Eitan Isaacson or Joanmarie Diggs BtS interview
• a11y overview: why you, random developer or vendor, should care about Caribou, ATSPI, etc. For example, it makes it easier to do automated testing. And silent visual alerts can help you when you're in a meeting.
• GNOME Shell integration
  • Idea from J Diggs: "On the gnome-shell stuff, aside from talking to the actual gnome-shell devs, there's Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias (API when he's around) who is working on Cally and ensuring Orca + gnome-shell work. And there's Joseph Scheuhammer (clown when he's around) who is doing gnome-shell magnification (i.e. a new magnifier in gnome shell)"
• Igalia's Webkit work
• Accessibility work by governments, firms, and community in Zaragoza, Spain
• Interview someone like Bryen Yunashko about functional regressions in accessibility in GNOME 3.0, and how we're going to fix them

Applications

• Brasero

• GSEAL (GnomeGoals/UseGseal)

• GNOME Mobility Platform
• Gwibber
• GIMP and Inkscape tutorials! Just google "photoshop tutorial" and do some of those. These could be really short like "how to remove redeye" to more complex issues. It'd be nice to have it as a regular column. Just a short tip each time.

End User Value, Deployments

• That's GNOME? An article about all the places GNOME is used from the new Barnes and Noble ereader to Amazon to Supersonic Imagine to Garmin Nuvo's.
• Am I using GNOME? An article that explains to a Linux user what is GNOME - what parts of what they are using are GNOME. If this was short we could also use it as a handout at events.
• The story of a switch to GNOME in an organisation, whether it is a small company or department, or a huge multinational corporation. Emphasise the narrative, personalities and real world problems as well as how GNOME helped them.

• An update to Ian McIntosh's 2007 article "Maryland Library Benefits from its Switch to Linux"

Development & Functionality

• Why did they do that? An article that explains some of the decisions we've made recently. Maybe focus on usability. For example, why did we remove the icons from menu items?

• The GNOME DeveloperKit is a powerful, easy-to-use platform available to all GNOME contributors to provide an environment for GNOME development, testing, documentation and translation. Showcase this tool to the community to make everyone aware they can have a sandbox environment to work and test without disturbing their core installation.

• Why reinvent the wheel all the time? Third party extensions to GTK+ are an interesting possibility to use advanced widgets. Review what exists. Is it up-to-date with GTK+? What about documentation? Are they easy to install? Most important: Do they appear to be useful?
• GTK apps for Meego
• GTKApplication

• What is the long term vision for GNOME-Zeitgeist? What will be able to do in the future. (I think SeifLotfy has lots of ideas ...)

• The mobile usability lab that Mairin showed off at the GNOME Boston Summit 2009

• Case study of using OpenHatch (http://openhatch.org/) to bring in new contributions for a GNOME project. (See Asheesh and Will)

People

• Behind the Scenes candidates

• Dave Richards who works for the City of Largo and hangs out in #evolution would be a great person to interview in terms of what it's like to support a GNOME desktop. Including supporting people who don't know computers, working out issues with problems with the desktop, and as a measure of how good our usability is with someone who is seasoned in support.

• ShaunMcCance's Pulse helps with documentation tracking. How does Pulse work?

• Thomas Vander Stichele and Mikael Hallendal represent two of the newest GNOME companies. They have recently joined the Board of Advisors. What kind of experience do they think they can bring to the Board of Advisors. What kind of cool projects are they currently working on? Is it viable to make money from GNOME?
• Advisory Board members to hear about their views of GNOME and their companies' plans for GNOME. (Stormy can provide contacts.)

• An interview with the designers who work on GNOME, like Canonical's mpt & Intel's Nick Richards.

• An interview with the GNOME Release team on how the team works and the upcoming GNOME 3.0 decision process
• Companies that sponsor GNOME development or GNOME contributors, but whom you haven't heard of!

Community

• GNOME local user groups, who are they and what do they do? (The Beijing group is active.)

• How does the GNOME Foundation work? (Stormy could reuse this one with attribution to OSBR, The GNOME Foundation is all about people)

• Who contributes to GNOME? A survey of GNOME Foundation members or GNOME contributors.
• Who gives to GNOME? A write up of the survey of Friends of GNOME that we did.
• Where in the world is GNOME? Show the map of GNOME contributors. Do a very short interview (one paragraph) of a contributor from each continent with a picture of them using GNOME in their home country.
• What do the GNOME Board of Directors do?

• recipes from the GNOME Cookbook GnomeCookbook

Trends

• Is Perl-GTK2 gaining ground? At least two applications developers switched lately from the standard TK interface. Get their opinions. Is it easy to use GTK with Perl? What advantages do they try to achieve? What problems do they face?

Events

• Google Summer of Code
• GNOME Mobile Summer of Code
• How to plan a community-run conference like GUADEC. Dave Neary would be a great author. Or someone could interview past planners. There's a lot of good content in the recent IRC meeting we had.
• GNOME Women's Outreach Program retrospective

Discussion

• X is the base platform for the *NIX desktop. Daniel Stone and others have recently broken up X into components allowing individual releases of components especially drivers. How do you think this might affect the desktop? Would we be able to have new modules that might do something interesting for us?
• Friends of GNOME / GNOME on social networks