[CentOS-devel] RFC: Alternative Desktop SIG

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 04:29:11PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>    On 24 May 2014 07:44, Jim Perrin <[1]jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
> 
>      Right now we've been reasonably 'heads-down' on building the seven
>      rc
>      and getting prepared for when 7 lands, but I haven't heard anything
>      more
>      from the folks who proposed the sig. We have been in contact with
>      the
>      EPEL folks to stuff in there. Currently epel has both mate and
>      cinnamon,
>      and may pick up more once 7 goes gold.
> 
>    My apologies. I have been head down in my own work and let this get
>    away. What do people want to hear on this and want to see? My starting
>    issue was to get a conversation started and see who was interested in
>    what desktops and such without it being a one guy SIG. Â
>    --
>    Stephen J Smoogen.

I'm interested in having a Mate desktop (in the absence of Gnome 2).
I figured if I volunteered to help in some way it would be more
likely than if I just whined. :)

So, I've been writing C for many years, usually in a Unix/Linux
environment, but I've never done any GUI programming, and not much
low-level stuff. I don't have any experience creating RPMs from scratch,
for example. there's a long list of things I don't know. But if all else
fails, I can assist with documentation, or bug triage, or such stuff.

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