[If you get this twice, my sincere apologies.] Hi there, my name is Alexander Joseph Perez, and I'm a co-maintainer of the GNUstep.org website and have been using GNUstep.org for several years. I'm from Santa Rosa, California, in the USA, am a full time anthropology student at Santa Rosa Junior College and work part time as a lowly help desk technician for the City of Santa Rosa, California. I'm writing this e-mail because I've recently noticed that the most recent release of Fedora Core (2) does not contain any GNUstep packages, and as I've just installed it after getting sick and tired of Debian, I'd like to change that. I am intimately famaliar with the build process, and have a significant amount of personal contact online with the GNUstep core development team on a daily basis. I'd be willing to do QA on my packages as long as the requirements were reasonable. In short, I'd like to expose GNUstep to a wider audience now that it is ready for such exposure. GNUstep has been a long-lived project, and "we're not dead yet" seems to have become our mantra. GNUstep is not dead. In fact it's alive and well, and with the inclusion of GNUstep packages into Fedora Core, one of the more popular distributions of Linux, we will gain the potential to expose many more people to GNUstep and its offerings. As I said previously, I'm a current GNUstep.org website maintainer, and am working on unifying the disparate GNUstep-related documentation sources which are/have been strewn across the expanse of the Internet until recently (much of it still is). I love the simplicity and true Object-Oriented nature of the Objective-C programming language, which GNUstep is based on. My associate, Andrew Pinski, is the GCC libobjc (GCC Objective-C runtime) maintainer and works periodically for apple as his college career permits. I recently worked with him to make sure that some of the patches to the Objective-C runtime were integrated into libobjc head. If anyone here has any questions, please feel free to contact me at aperezATstudentDOTsantarosaDOTedu as I'd be glad to answer or clarify any points I've made here. I am not subscribed to the fedora-devel mailing list and do not wish to be unless I am "accepted" and allowed to create and provide GNUstep packages to Fedora. My GPG fingerprint is 2F36 2A89 14B4 B58F 176B 1B26 5E4D 5FCA 9190 2041 and this has been uploaded to pgp.mit.edu Cheers, Alex Perez -- pub 1024D/91902041 2004-05-31 Alex Perez (MrBIOS) <aperez(a)student.santarosa.edu&gt; Key fingerprint = 2F36 2A89 14B4 B58F 176B 1B26 5E4D 5FCA 9190 2041 sub 2048g/380DB427 2004-05-31