The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepal

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
at 8:00am

The last few days have been a whirlwind of backchannel (and front-facing) activity surrounding my call-to-action. 95% of the feedback has been positive AND productive, with some of my favorite responses coming from people who had working code to donate - and a nod from Dries on one of Adam’s follow-up posts.

It was most heartening to see that Hans pretty much echoed our same concerns and directives - which means we’re definitely scooting down the right path.

In about an hour, we’ll officially be starting down the path of live dogfooding the project that is now known as Gnomepal. This means, we will be building out our needs as a community for this particular community project. Like anything, we have to start somewhere - and Gnomepal.org is it. If you’d like to join the discussion list, we have one set up.

We are planning to be active in #drupal-gnomepal on irc.freenode.net, and anybody can download the living code on the Assembla page (which contains a wiki that needs fleshing out, Trac, svn, trouble tickets, Milestones, etc.). If you would like to join the effort in development, documentation, organization, etc. - just let us know (and I could certainly use some help in wrangling folks). I’m working on getting a mailman list set up on my server, but for some reason it hasn’t been cooperating with us lately.

That’s all for now. I need some coffee to wake up. You?

16 Comments

Taylor Brazelton

March 29th, 2008
at 8:17am

Hey chris I don’t know PHP but I do know ASP.net and C#.net if you ever do a opensource project with those languages tell me and I will help.

P.S. I can do Windows forms and web forms

hichez

March 29th, 2008
at 9:03am

ill br sure to check out the website. ill probably be following you the whole way though. good luck

Nathan

March 29th, 2008
at 12:31pm

I’m in. I’ve always been a fan of big community projects.

Signed up. Ready to contribute.

Bryce

March 30th, 2008
at 12:32am

Hey Chris - I’d love to get involved in Gnomepal, what’s the best way to help out?

John DeBruyn

March 30th, 2008
at 8:19am

What is Gnomepal : ) J.

John DeBruyn

March 30th, 2008
at 8:39am

Did some research, this is probably what the Gnomepal project addresses:

technoexpert.blogspot.com — If you ’ve tried to open source CMS Drupal, and you’re not a full time developer, chance is you encountered problems. In fact, chance is that you completely gave up on it because it’s so damn complex; dozens of interdependent modules are needed for certain features, and not all modules are working well with the latest version of Drupal.

funnyent

March 30th, 2008
at 9:49am

abi chris, I love gnomepal! I jus signed up anita is awesome! Can’t wait to see more. - Tim

Bryce

March 30th, 2008
at 1:27pm

I’m working on getting a mailman list set up on my server, but for some reason it hasn’t been cooperating with us lately.

Just use Google Groups.

Robert "macky"

March 30th, 2008
at 3:15pm

I watched the entire “conference” yesterday and I’ve gotta say I really like where this is going. I look forward to helping out any way I can, and look forward even more to using the final product.

Also, I hope the “inter-communities” aspect of gnomepal gets very well developed. I’d love to see communities “coming together” so to speak.

Matthew Schiffer

March 30th, 2008
at 4:18pm

Hey chris. Macboy88 from the forums. I just thought it would be a good idea to maybe talk to someone you know down at Google and see if they’d like to help out with this project. Facebook has it’s home page where you put in your e-mail and password before going to a second “home” page. Myspace has the same.

I figure if you could incorporate this project with Google, people could have their profile on http://www.google.com

Many people use google so it would be everything they need in one place. A search engine/social network.