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Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!!

Submitted by sragavan on Fri, 2004-08-06 11:31. GNOME

GNOME Foundation is proud to announce the relaunch of the open source desktop integration bounty. The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience.

This contest is sponsored & authored by Novell and is being administered by the GNOME Foundation

The contest consist of new set of small projects and also the unsolved old projects from the previous rounds.

Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect the prize.

Unlike the round one and two, there is no time deadline. The completed project will go into the upcoming GNOME release, depending upon the freeze dates.

People participating in the contest will be hanging out on the #bounties channel on irc.gimp.org.

To find out more information about the Desktop Bounties, check the web site:

http://www.gnome.org/bounties/

Thanks for everyone who participated so far!

Happy GNOME hacking! :-)

Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-08-08 05:00.

I would not like to admit, but this time reaction of some GNOME hackers wasn't all that nice at all - it waged a little flame war, and, as far issue is on topic, comments and accuses of each other was over a top.

I would like to point out that lot of arguing was a little bit too rethoric - geeks are simply afraid of coorporations, as they think they are not ethicaly responsive about what do or promise. I would like to say - then it is really hard to live, because business is everywhere and there is nothing you can do about it :) So better try to work out which suites for both individuals and coorporations, not just flaming.

As for bounties - I actually don't care if they are from Novell or GNOME foundation, as all that stuff is very useful and interesting and would make a lot of GNOME users expierence much better. So it is rather sad to see flame war about that.

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