The GNOME Journal

Have you ever wanted to give something back to the Open Source community, but felt that you had nothing to offer because you’re not a “coder”?

There are many ways to contribue to Free/Open Source software and the projects and communities surrounding those projects without being a developer. Many folks who consume these products want to get involved and simply do not know how.

Often people “give back” by helping other users out in IRC, on mailing lists and on web-forums, but there are other ways to give back as well. One such way is by contributing to the GNOME Jounal. The GNOME Journal is an online magazine devoted to everything surrounding the GNOME Desktop. This would include the software, people, development, news, etc. surrounding anything related to GNOME.

If you check out the website, you will see that the last article was posted in December of 2007. Recently there has been a resurgence of activity on the GNOME Journal mailing list as well as some chatter in #gnome-journal on GIMPnet on IRC about getting a new issue out the door. We do, however need help, and this is where you can help!

We not only need writers, we especially need someone with outstanding organizational skills to help organize releases. So if you have either skill-set, or would simply like to help out in any way you can, and have time to devote, please join our mailing list or hop into the IRC channel - we would love to hear from you. Also check out the GNOME Journal wiki page for ideas for articles, an article wish-list, the announcement guide, and ways to submit ideas for new articles.

There are lots of exciting things going on with the GNOME Desktop - let’s get out there and tell the world about them!