There’s a lot going on in the Universal Applets community at the moment, so I’ve decided to start writing semi-weekly wrap-up posts summarizing everything that’s happened. Here goes news roundup #1:

(Thanks, Kwaanens)
Forking
I know the news is already out all over the forums, so I’ll try to keep this short: There’s been some tension [...]

NOTE: Some of this post is no longer relevant. Please use Universal Applet’s internal documentation.
At the moment, there’s very little documentation for developers describing the Universal Applets architecture. I’m hoping to roll out a stable release within the next week or two, and I should have the time to write up some docs after that.
In [...]

Ubuntu Brainstorm is quite nice. I submitted my first idea today:

I had some trouble booting into my computer earlier this week. It’s fixed now, but the Universal Applets release that I promised will be delayed by a few days.

I’m reposting a shortened version of this email to the Gnome-love list. The bolded bit talks about the project’s current status.
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I’m trying to fix the problem by creating a universal applets framework for GNOME that’s mostly based on Screenlets. The goal is to create a common applet format that can be easily loaded into any [...]

I just pushed the first real commit of my branch of Screenlets to Launchpad.
It’s still a regression from the end users perspective. Don’t bother looking at it unless you’re a developer.  There’s a slightly longer explanation here.
Quick side note: I really need to write a whole post about GHOP. For now, I’d just like [...]

I’ve created a new branch of Screenlets on Launchpad for Universal Applets. Right now the branch is just the same as trunk, but I’ll be pushing a revision soon.
Here’s a screenshot of how things are looking right now:

Update: Please see this forum thread for details.
What is “Desktop 2.0?”
“Desktop 2.0″ is to the operating system what Web 2.0 is to the Internet. The following are the key elements of Desktop 2.0 (unless you’re new to Linux, you may want to skip a large part of the following explanation and go directly to here):

Mini [...]

I’ve been doing GHOP tasks for the Gnome Online Desktop. My most recent task was to code an email stock for Bigboard. There’s a snapshot at the bottom of the post.
I’m about to begin working on a new app soon to edit and “remix” fdo iconsets. It’ll be the Linux equivalent of CandyBar. If you’re [...]

In order to work on my latest task for GHOP, I need to do some coding in Python. I’m attempting to learn the language in under two days while I’m on vacation at the Dead Sea with limited internet access. So far, its gone (going?) surprisingly well.
I’m reading over Dive Into Python (a free book [...]

I know the name sounds a bit awkward and geeky, but GHOP is a masterpiece move by Google in the endless game against Microsoft. I may just be a pawn, but that doesn’t bother me one bit.
For those of you that missed it, Google announced GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) about two weeks ago. The [...]