The turnout for GnomeUniversity has been absolutely outstanding! We have about 85-90 “students” that have contacted me so far. The students have a wide variety of locations, experience, and age. I absolutely love it!
I’m still writing the introductory content, but things will start progressing shortly.
The requests to join Gnome University has been overwhelming. I simply cannot keep up with the incoming requests on a daily basis. Fear not, I’ve received and read them and will not forget about you, I just need to batch up the processing of those emails to every couple days.
I’m still busy writing content.
This is going to be one of my most difficult projects to date, but by far the most rewarding. I sent out an email to the students this weekend that covers the basics of how I want to approach this.
We have an IRC channel setup on gimpnet (#gnome-university).
I hope to have a mailing list setup [...]
I have already heard from more than 40 people that want to contribute to our platform. We have some exciting times ahead.
I’m spending all my free time at the moment taking inventory of peoples goals and their current experience. I’m not sure how the process will proceed yet. I am dilligently putting resources together so [...]
The abundance of you that have contacted me regarding my offer to teach you C is heart warming and clear evidence of GNOMEs future potential. I think this is very important and will do my best to get this started for as many of you as possible. If I haven’t contacted you yet, I will [...]
I’m interested in teaching one or more people how to write C for desktop GNU/Linux. This includes Gtk/GObject and related technologies. No particular C experience is required, and I’ll figure out how to move forward once I have an understanding of your experience.
This is just as much an exercise for myself as it will be [...]
