<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 9:19 AM Lennart Sorensen <<a href="mailto:lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
They could have started a new desktop project and done whatever they<br>
wanted. Making gnome 3 totally nothing like gnome 2 on the other hand<br>
made no sense. It was not an upgrade of the previous version.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was first alerted to the initiative when Marcel Gagne posted to say "this is cool" (he has since backtracked).</div><div><br></div><div>A member of the documentation team posted here to say they were coming to town, and Hugh followed up with more specific location details. I went to Seneca@York and met volunteers from the States, BC, Germany, the UK, Chile, and a couple of locals including the maintainer of dbus. After being involved in the early 2000s downloading and testing GNOME for the Debian effort, I had turned into a passive user of GNOME 2. Getting involved with GNOME 3 turned me back into an enthusiastic user. I use assorted GNOME utilities but mainly Boxes and Firefox.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div></div></div>