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Here is a second screencast on rpm2git (Ogg Theora, 69 MB). This one tells you how to use rpm2git to take the patches from a SRPM and put them in a Git branch.
During GUADEC in Stuttgart and in Dublin, Evangelia Berdou was interviewing people about how they contribute in GNOME. She used this information for her dissertation, Managing the Bazaar: Commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led Free/Open source software projects. Over 100 people from the GNOME Foundation contributed to her study!
There is very valuable information in this work: how many core-platform hackers, core-desktop hackers, secondary-desktop hackers, translators, and peripheral contributors do we have? Which of them are employed to work only on GNOME, on GNOME and other free software, or are not paid for their contributions? How do people move from being peripheral contributors to core ones?
For people thinking about which sub-group of GNOME needs better tools (translators!) and support from GNOME at large, this is exactly what they need to read.
FOAF updates: Trust rankings are now exported, making the data available to other users and websites. An external FOAF URI has been added, allowing users to link to an additional FOAF file.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!