The past week we had the pleasure of hosting a week long GNOME & Mono hackfest event at the lovely Microsoft NERD center in Boston. I have collected all the blog posts, photos and media mentions but to summarize we have made a lot of progress.
* We are nearly ready to unveil a new Tomboy UX which is heavily inspired by the GNOME3 Notes application mockups, this will initially ship on OS X but once we get WebKit-gtk# bindings on Linux it is likely to land in GNOME3 as well. To deliver this Jared and Robert have been rewriting Tomboy to provide a proper library and separate UX, which will allow us to deploy on multiple platforms. Jared Jennings is expected to share more information on this shortly, additionally if Jeremie failed to sleep on the flight back to Ireland I have been promised an initial Tomboy client for iOS. * We also managed to push out not one but two releases of Taglib# fixing a number of issues and adding support for one new format. * Andreia Gaita demoed a gir2gapi translator which will allow us to generate GObject-Introspection based bindings, however there are still areas where doing so requires guesswork rather than relying on information which gir could provide for us, regardless this is a big step forward. * Banshee has seen a number of improvements, biggest is probably being moved to the Last.fm Scrobbling 2.0 API. * Dbus# has seen a lot of work, having 2 years worth of work merged and we are now passing all of the unit tests. There is still a bit of work left to do in terms of API improvements but Jeremie demoed Banshee using it with all the old ndesk-dbus/dbus-sharp workarounds removed running flawlessly. Getting this deployed should greatly improve stability and allow a wealth of applications to remove old workarounds. * MonoDevelop gain support for the Plastic Distributed Version Control System and more importantly as a result of this we have established good relations with Codice Software which we expect to lead to the Open Sourcing of some of their code, as well as a greater involvement with our community. * Two of our GSoC students attended and had very productive meetings with their mentors, meaning we are on track to deliver the Tasque (Todo application with Remember the Milk integration) revitalization and voice controls for Banshee. This was Antonius's (Tasque) first involvement with Open Source so we are pleased to have given him a pleasant welcoming and lots of good memories. .. and much much more. We had a fantastic time for which we naturally want to thank our generous sponsors Fluendo, Xamarin, Microsoft, Plural Sight and of course GNOME. Planning for next years event has already started and we are looking forward to building on what worked well this year and what needs improvements. A gigantic thank you on behalf of all the attendees, David Nielsen Full list of blog posts, photos etc. can be found here: https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOMEandMonoFestivalofLove2012/Blogging (List is expected to grow still as some attendees still owe me blog posts) _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
