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Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME (ubuntu.com)

BrianFagioli quotes BetaNews: On August 24 and 25, the Ubuntu Desktop team will be holding a "Fit and Finish Sprint," where they will aggressively test GNOME. Canonical is also asking the Ubuntu community to help with this process. In other words, you might be able to assist with making Artful Aardvark even better.

What makes this particularly cool, however, is that Canonical will be selecting some community members to visit its London office on August 24 between 4 pm and 9 pm. "Over the two days we'll be scrutinizing the new GNOME Shell desktop experience, looking for anything jarring/glitchy or out of place," says Alan Pope, Community Manager. "We'll be working on the GTK, GDM and desktop theme alike, to fix inconsistencies, performance, behavioral or visual issues. We'll also be looking at the default key bindings, panel color schemes and anything else we discover along the way."

A few caveats: Canonical won't pay anyone's travel expenses to London, and "Ideally we're looking for people who are experienced in identifying (and fixing) theme issues, CSS experts and GNOME Shell / GTK themers."

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  1. Re:Tests don't fix the problems of identity politi by Rhapsody+Scarlet · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't understand why this is modded down.

    Because he's using the decline of the GNOME Project as an excuse to indulge his hate-boner for feminism. Seriously, what is the 2006 outreach to women post doing on that list? Can anyone give any good reason why that event lead to the next event and everything else on that list? Because I certainly can't think of any.