From mjs@pythagoras.eazel.com Received: (qmail 18541 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2000 00:00:20 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2000 00:00:20 -0000 Received: from pythagoras.eazel.com (eazel18.eazel.com [208.37.144.18]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14083 for <gnome-list@gnome.org>; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:00:19 -0500 Received: (from mjs@localhost) by pythagoras.eazel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA04472; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:00:18 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: pythagoras.eazel.com: mjs set sender to mjs@eazel.com using -f Sender: mjs@pythagoras.eazel.com To: gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Eazel] References: <38B30FB5.5DCA60F8@eazel.com> From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> Date: 22 Feb 2000 16:00:18 -0800 In-Reply-To: Bart Decrem's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:37:41 -0800" Message-ID: <lqn1os23fx.fsf@pythagoras.eazel.com> Lines: 71 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm forwarding this for Mike because he had trouble subscribing to gnome-list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Eazel Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:19:57 -0800 From: Mike Boich <mike@eazel.com> Organization: Eazel To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org CC: Bart Decrem <bart@eazel.com> Dear Gnome hackers and supporters: I'm writing this post on behalf of Eazel to introduce ourselves to the Gnome community. We're a 15 person (and growing) company dedicated to making Linux a better desktop environment than either Windows or Macintosh. For the past several months, we have been working closely with a number of Gnome hackers on Nautilus, the Gnome file manager for Gnome 2.0. Some Background The company was founded by Andy Hertzfeld, Bart Decrem, and myself (Mike Boich). Andy is a primary author of the original Macintosh OS, and later cofounded General Magic. He's passionate about making computers easy to use. Bart founded and ran Plugged In, a non-profit that has led the way in providing computer and Internet access to low-income communities. I worked at Apple in the early Macintosh days as the first "software evangelist", and have been involved in starting and running companies since then. All of us are enthusiastic believers in Open Source. After evaluating the various paths to a superior desktop environment (start from scratch, build on KDE, build on Gnome), Gnome was our unanimous choice. This is due to a combination of the excellent work that has already been done on Gnome, its GPL license, and the Gnome hackers we've had the opportunity to meet. After we described our plans to Miguel and showed him the prototype that we had developed, he suggested that we should merge our efforts with those of Ettore Perrazoli who had begun working on GnomeFM as a replacement for GMC. By this time, Elliot Lee had also begun working on Nautilus, starting with Ettore's code and generalizing it to become a extensible viewer for other types of information. In December, we concluded that it made sense to use the work done by Ettore and Elliot as the foundation to build on. Current Eazel hackers working on Nautilus are: Darin Adler, Ramiro Estrugo, Andy Hertzfeld, Maciej Stachowiak, and John Sullivan. George Lebl is a half-time employee here and is focusing on integrating the Gnome panel with Nautilus. We are actively hiring technical people, both to work on Nautilus and also on web-based services and other usability improvements. If you're interested in working at Eazel, contact Bart Decrem (bart@eazel.com). Now that we're no longer in "stealth mode", we plan to be more active in the Gnome community. You may have already seen articles about us on CNet, Slashdot, the New York Times or elsewhere. Later today, we'll post links to those articles on our web site. We hope that those articles will provide you with useful additional information. We have also posted a summary of our plans for Nautilus on the Developer section of our web site (www.eazel.com). The site (and the Developer section in particular) will become more informative over the next few months. We look forward to meeting more Gnome hackers and other members of the Gnome community, and collaborating with you on making Gnome great! Mike Boich Eazel