It’s been a long time since Google Summer of Code ended, and I still haven’t posted anything since August. I know I am very late (it’s hard to believe that 2011 is already coming to a close — Desktop Summit seemed like it was yesterday!), but besides being extremely busy with my regular job and lots of others little projects and my final paper, I don’t have an excuse.
I got 5 big tasks in my GSoC TODO list. I knew it was a lot right from the beginning, but I didn’t want to worry about the short timetable I would get in the program. I already was contributing in the web team and keeping working on it after GSoC wouldn’t be an issue. From May to August I got intense days in my university (considering it was winter here) and this delayed me a lot. I need to thank to Federico again for his support as my mentor 
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As for the 5 tasks I got, I only didn’t work in one (which was about reorganizing the developer area). Two of the tasks are ready to be deployed (the one to add support for translating the GNOME website and the other to have a new applications area), and the other two (the community website — which I must say it could be an entire Summer of Code project — and the template update for subdomains) are half-done.
I’m about to give more details about my nearly finished tasks and on deploying them in another post soon (like the new Damned Lies template above which is completely out of context in this post) basically because I’m catching a bigger fish right now. For the past month I’ve been working in my final paper for university. I’m finishing my bachelors in Design and this is consuming all my free time as I need to get it done in the beginning of December. The good part is that it is an analysis of the information architecture for the GNOME website!
And as part of my final paper study, I’m about to publish a user survey which might give me some data regarding how people use GNOME website and its services. Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, please be patient . Thank you!
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Thanks a lot for doing this.
The whole web pages was a mess. It got quite good during the 3.0-cycle. But you are improving the hell out of it.
Thanks!
Great to here news from you!
I took a look at the templates for damned-lies and they are really amazing! I did some small hacking there if you need anything from the backend or something that is fuzzy for you, please do not hesitate to contact me or the gnome-i18n mailing list or the bugzilla
Cheers,