Its been both an exciting and challenging year for us, this post includes some of the highlights. Early in the spring Karen Sandler announced her departure* as the Executive Director of the foundation. The GNOME Asia Summit, an event with a strong community building focus, was this year hosted in Beijing, China.…
We are thrilled to report that GNOME.Asia is a founding member of KAIYUANSHE(开源社) launched Oct 16, 2014. KAIYUANSHE roughly translated as “open source alliance,” is a group of enterprises, communities, and individuals in China supporting and promoting free and open source software (FOSS). KAIYUANSHE will support the growing needs of China’s growing…
The GNOME Asia Committee is pleased to announce that the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted in Depok Indonesia May 7-9 2015. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to GNOME 3. The GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted at the Universitas…
Thank you so much for your donations and help in spreading the word! We are overwhelmed and reinvigorated by the support we received from everyone, which has resulted in the following joint announcement that we're publishing with Groupon: "Groupon has agreed to change its Gnome product name to resolve the GNOME Foundation's…
GNOME has launched a campaign to raise funds for protecting the GNOME trademarks. Recently, Groupon launched Gnome, a tablet-based point of sale (POS) system that Groupon describes as a "platform" and an "operating system". The GNOME Foundation is concerned and sees their long-established mark for Free Software, GNOME, endangered. The GNOME Foundation…
Several members of the GNOME Engagement Team will gather this weekend at FSCONS. FSCONS is an annual gathering for free software in the Nordic countries, taking place in Gothenburg Sweden. GNOME will be present with a booth where contributors will show the latest version of GNOME, answer questions and help new people…
GNOME Summit 2014 starts tomorrow. The GNOME Summit is an annual gathering of contributors from around the world that features three-days of discussion and working sessions. After the last summit, held in Montreal it's this year back in Boston. Scheduled topics include: Wayland, App development, Privacy and the GNOME Continuous build system.…
With GNOME 3.14 just released, the GNOME project has published a video that demos the new GNOME version. The short film is a great way to learn about the new features - and see some of the attention to detail - in the new release. As always, more details can be found…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p8Prlu3owc GNOME 3.14, the latest version of GNOME 3, has been released. Announcing the new version, Matthias Clasen said: “This is another exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new features and improvements.” The new release is the result of six months’ work by the GNOME project, and includes 28,859 changes by…
Orinda, CA– The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.14 today. This milestone release in the GNOME 3 series brings exciting new features, bug fixes, and an enhanced application development platform. Major new features include automatic handling for captive portals, network-aware sharing, Google photos support, and touchscreen gestures.…