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Laying the groundwork

Since we launched the Shimmer Project, I have been working with our website. The website of course runs WordPress, because I have become a huge fan of it.

The biggest thing (and yet the most hidden thing) I have been working on is a plugin, which makes possible managing your projects under WP. Its features include projects, project catalogs, licenses, screenshots (still WIP), linking to a code repository (via another plugin) et cetera. We have done massive testing on the plugin, and are soon ready to make the first “demo” site public. For the plugin itself, you need to wait a bit longer so I can get it polished.

Although our project emphasizes on mostly anything you can see, I’ll also add the Project Catalog plugin to our site as well as some more WordPress plugins that have proven to be even more useful than I ever thought.

Feel free to check shimmerproject.org out and/or join us at IRC on the Freenode IRC network, channel #shimmer.

Announcement: The Shimmer Project

As of today, I’m glad to announce the official birth of the Shimmer Project. The team I’ll start leading consists of me, Steve Dodier (SiDi), James Schriver (dashua) and Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi). We want to make various things look good or work better. We will not be tied with any particular project even if we work with them. You could think us of as freelancers of the Open Source world with the exception that we don’t ask for any money but only work for the projects and things we have passion for.

For the first few months our main focus will be on creating a solid theme for Xfce with beautiful artwork, a bugfree GTK+ theme and all the other bits you need to have an astonishing Xfce desktop experience.