There, I finally got around to create a blog over at blogs.gnome.org, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. So, I guess a small introduction is in order. My name is Johan Svedberg and I’m a 25 year old CS-student from Umeå, Sweden. For a few years now I’ve been lurking around the GNOME community, doing some small bits and pieces here and there. Some people might recognize me from my work on OnTV which is a TV-guide applet for the panel.
During this summer I’ll be participating in Google Summer of Code. Mentored by Diego Escalante Urrelo I’ll be working on developing a modern Download Manager for the GNOME desktop. In addition to this I’ll also be helping out with creating Python bindings for GIO/GVFS. My plan is to continuesly blog about my progress on this and hopefully get some valuable feedback along the way.