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Guadec5 - first meeting Roman Joost 20 Jul 23:07
Roman Joost
2004-07-20 23:07:10 UTC (over 19 years ago)

Guadec5 - first meeting

I hope that the summarize of the first meeting on GUADEC 5 isn't to late.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: GimpCon status - first meeting

Present: Sven Neumann (neo), Tor Lillqist (tml), David Odin (dindix), Dave Neary (bolsh), Roman Joost (romanofski), Simon Budig (nomis), Niklas Mattisson (scizzo), Øyvind Kolås (pippin), Larry Lewing (lewing), Kenneth Wimer, Nathan Summers (rockwlrs), Carol Spears (carol), Manish Singh (yosh), Ville Pätsi (drc), Vidar Madsen (vidar), Jakup Steiner (jimmac), Tuomas Kuosmanen (tigert)

The GIMP Foundation

Dave Neary first purposed to talk about the GIMP Foundation. The problem is, that Daniel Rogers doesn't want to be responsible for the foundation topic anymore. We discussed the pros and cons about having our own GIMP foundation or the GNOME foundation is covering the responsibilities.
If we want to have our own GIMP Foundation, the problem is to have at least one person who can work fulltime with the Foundation. Therefore, we discovered two problems:
1. We need to have money to pay one person who is actually in charge of the foundation issues/topics. 2. We need one person, who want to take this burden and can actually deal with bureaucracy and political issues/topic. 3. It would probably be better to pay a fulltime developer instead.

We came to the point that we think, that the GNOME Foundation can address these kind of issues and topics very well. That is, why the proposal leads towards continuing to use the GNOME Foundation.

The GIMP Website

First we discussed the status of the BETA server, which is maintained by yosh. Yosh needs time to solve the outstanding problems. Afterall, we discussed about moving the CVS of the website to BETA or leave it in the GNOME repository. This is up to the gimp webteam to decide, if the repository is going to stay on the gnome CVS server or if it should be moved to BETA.

We discussed who is acting like a project leader of the web team. Many discussions were made about which person will take this role. We proposed Niklas Mattisson (scizzo) to be the project leader of the web team, but it's up to the gimp webteam itself to make a final decision. This will be discussed further on the developer mailinglist, to have comments from other developers.

Documentation
Roman talked about the current status of the gimp documentation project. He informed about the issues the project has currently and how to address them. One issue is the lack of communication between the writers, which the new mailinglist should address. The second problem is the lack of writers, where jimmac proposed, that in the user point of view, hacking XML content is really difficult. We discussed some solutions like having a better gimp help browser, where the user can edit the current content [1]. Another proposal was a XML WIKI roundtrip. In any case, Tuomas pointed out, that having more documentation writers are better than developing new tools or implementing functionality which takes much time. We came to the conclusion to ask the GNOME docwriters for help and Kenneth Wimer from SuSE offered help from the SuSE documentation team. Also, we concluded to have some proof readers, who gets an information mail if something changed which should be proof readed.

[1] - Help Mono Project ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Greetings,