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I recommend reading the excellent IRS writeup posted at http://yorba.org/docs/IRS-dete... by the way.

One of the key phrases:

Developing Open Source Software Is An Activity Ordinarily Carried On As An Incident To Commercial Or Industrial Operations

In a nutshell, Yorba failed to properly differentiate themselves from a traditional for-profit company. As a for-profit software company owner, I'd say that that's a fair statement. If Yorba was actively engaging in outreach to provide free software to schools (and then incidentally released it to the public), again that would be different.

When you apply for 501(c)3 status you're asking that the general public subsidize your business. Its not unreasonable to require a significant burden of proof before such a federal subsidy is granted.

I think Geary will be good once released.

In the meantime, nothing beats Thunderbird for me. The plugins are the new developments and features. Evolution works great out of the box, but it's still too slow and unreliable. I get tons of emails with Thunderbird at work and have never had a problem. The calendar plugin works mostly and even LDAP for the address book; it just takes a little bit of time to configure. For any advanced calendar functions, I just use my android phone. In fact, my coworker who is on Windows and uses Outlook has to rely on his phone because Outlook crashes once a day for him.

Well the KDE part is true, because it doesn't need to be optimized (svg, muthafuckas).

Someone doesn't understand the realities of using SVG for GUIs, I see. Just because SVG graphics *can* be stretched to any size, it doesn't mean they'll look good at any size. Most of the time you end up making multiple SVG graphics for the different sizes you expect to support.

For a concrete example, take a look at Shotwell's SVG icon -- there's three different sizes:
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-16.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-24.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell.svg

Well the KDE part is true, because it doesn't need to be optimized (svg, muthafuckas).

Someone doesn't understand the realities of using SVG for GUIs, I see. Just because SVG graphics *can* be stretched to any size, it doesn't mean they'll look good at any size. Most of the time you end up making multiple SVG graphics for the different sizes you expect to support.

For a concrete example, take a look at Shotwell's SVG icon -- there's three different sizes:
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-16.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-24.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell.svg

Well the KDE part is true, because it doesn't need to be optimized (svg, muthafuckas).

Someone doesn't understand the realities of using SVG for GUIs, I see. Just because SVG graphics *can* be stretched to any size, it doesn't mean they'll look good at any size. Most of the time you end up making multiple SVG graphics for the different sizes you expect to support.

For a concrete example, take a look at Shotwell's SVG icon -- there's three different sizes:
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-16.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-24.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell.svg

Indeed! For the record, Vala was actually inspired by C# so any Java / C# / C++ developer should need very little time to pick it up.

Oh and if you have any issues when importing your F-Spot database to Shotwell, please file a ticket so that I can fix it.

Lots of people care about managing photos, and I absolutely agree that a solid photo manager is crucial in any consumer-oriented OS, including Ubuntu. A powerful image editor, like the GIMP, is a nice bonus, but less important to most end-users. All most people need is an app that can create albums, crop, and remove red-eye.

Does Shotwell meet these criteria? A quick look at their website seems to indicate yes. I'll probably download it tonight and see if their claims stand up.

Try Shotwell, it's still yound, but seems to have entered a development spurt and is adding (useful!) features rapidly. If you don't shoot raw 0.5 should do just about anything f-spot did, with the addition of auto generated events.

F-Spot is slow...

Worse, if let it, it eats metadata at night; I'm referring to the madness they do with time zone conversion. Even if you convince it to leave your pictures alone it will still fuck with how time is displayed...

Thankfully not only is it not part of Gnome, but a good alternative seems to finally be getting of the ground.

I can't say that I approve of an application that along with Tomboy alone supposedly justify the additional bloat of libmono, which none of the other standard desktop apps use. That doesn't make sense for leanness and reuse.

They should look at what Yorba is doing with Shotwell: http://yorba.org/