Joining the GNOME Project...

(Note: This content has been copied to the Getting Involved page of the future plone-based www.gnome.org. This page should be redirected there when that site goes live. murrayc)

You like GNOME. But there's still room for improvement. GNOME invites you to join our Free_software community if you have some spare time. There are many different fields. You do not have to be a programmer. Now the question is :

Contents

  1. Accessibility
  2. Testing
  3. Development
  4. Documentation
  5. Translation
  6. Usability
  7. Web development
  8. Web system administration
  9. Artistic content
  10. Marketing
  11. Journalism
  12. Sponsoring

Accessibility

Accessibility (also known as a11y because there are 11 letters between the a and the y) enables people with disabilities to participate in activities such as work and the use of services, products, and information. We define GNOME accessibility as the suite of software services and support that allows people with disabilities to utilize all of the functionality of the GNOME user environment.

Testing

The GNOME Bugsquad is the Quality Assurance (QA) team for GNOME. We test programs, manage the Bugzilla bug database and make sure that major bugs don't go unnoticed by developers.


The Build Brigade is an effort to make testing of the development version easy for everyone and to automate discovery and reporting of Gnome build errors.

Development

Development involves many different projects, on the GNOME Desktop Environment and the GNOME applications. You'll have a chance to improve your favorite app, fix the annoying bugs nobody has fixed for you, or add the feature you missed.

Documentation

The GNOME Documentation Project is responsible for providing GNOME users with high quality documentation - manuals, online help, tutorials, programming references, interface guidelines, printed books, and so on. The GDP is always looking for new contributors.

Translation

GNOME has some support for internationalization (also known as i18n) and localization (also known as l10n), and more is on the way. This provides a transparent way for translators to customize applications in GNOME without the application author doing much work.

Usability

The Usability Project strives to make the GNOME experience as pleasant and efficient as possible. The project aims both to aid developers in their efforts to create intuitive applications, and to lead by creating designs and detailed mockups toward a cohesive and beautiful new generation of the GNOME desktop. The Usability Project achieves these goals through the creation of a style guide (defining and evolving the GNOME user interface), working with maintainers to remove interaction problems through user testing, and the visual/interactive engineering of new desktop components.

Web development

The GNOME Webhackers are in the process of rebuilding the various GNOME websites. They are responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the official GNOME site, plus subsites.

Web system administration

The GNOME system administration team manages the gnome.org servers and the services running on them, such as the mailing lists, CVS server and web sites.

Artistic content

One of GNOME's strengths is the high quality of its artwork. It's supplied by the GNOME Art Team.

Marketing

The Marketing Team works to improve communication and image of the GNOME Project.

Journalism

Write your analysis of the GNOME Desktop, and inform the community of the upcoming developments, or criticize for example the good and the bad in GNOME... The good to have an example of what should be done, and the bad to know what remains to improve !

Sponsoring

Even with no time nor skills, you can still help the GNOME Project to improve, becoming a "Friend of GNOME"!

JoinGnome (last edited 2008-02-12 13:53:09 by WillieWalker)