The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepal

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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?