The team at Novell responsible for GNOME have been quiet in openSUSE for sometime, even though we already have several great external contributors like James Ogley and Andreas Hanke and we've pushed in significant general technologies like Compiz/Xgl, NetworkManager and Beagle. All this is changing though, we've had an IRC channel for a while but we haven't really advertised it (#opensuse-gnome on irc.freednode.net) and we have an opensuse-gnome mailing list as well now: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to sign up. Michael Wolf</a> has been pushing in GNOME 2.17 in to Factory and the GNOME:UNSTABLE build service. There is also GNOME Team page if you are so inclined to get involved: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Team -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> Novell, Inc.