The Shimmer Project has been formed to make everything Open Source beautiful. We will not be tied with any particular project even if we work with them. You could think us of as freelancers of the Free Software world with the exception that we don’t ask for any money but only work for the projects and things we have passion for. The Shimmer team will try to contribute to various fields of FOSS projects, including artwork, GUI design, usability, desktop integration, et cetera.
Who are we?
Pasi Lallinaho, the leader and founder of the project, has a broad experience in the Open Source field. He has been working with Amarok and is currently the Xubuntu Marketing Lead. He is also entrepreneur and his company emphasizes on Open Source solutions. Pasi works extensively with almost anything from artwork to webdesign. Blog »
Steve Dodier, the co-founder of the project, is a young and talented guy who likes kittens. Steve is a student in computer security, but is also passioned by human/machine interfaces and graphical user interface design. Steve likes to work as upstream as possible to be able to ship patches to as many people as possible. Blog »
James Schriver, also from the core team, is a GTK theming guru. His work is used by thousands of people around the world. Blog »
Simon Steinbeiß, our general Xfce-aficionado, is currently focussing on our shimmer for gmusicbrowser project. Other than that he’s also working on icons and xfwm4 themes. Blog »
Mads Rosendahl, the fifth core member, is an all-around artwork guru. He is known for his work on Ubuntu. Blog »
In addition to this core team, we are getting help with our projects from several people, including accessibility experts and upstream relations. We don’t expect to grow the core team any time soon, but you are free to join working with us on our projects.
Contact us
Our IRC channel is #shimmer on the Freenode IRC network and is used for both general communication and development. You can contact any core team member by sending mail to firstname@shimmerproject.org.