The GNOME Foundation is proud to honor Telsa Gwynne for her contributions to the GNOME community. It is with deep regret and sadness that we announce that Telsa after living with cancer for a while she passed away this last Tuesday, November 3, 2015. Telsa was a long-time GNOME contributor who began by contributing…
It is with pleasure that the GNOME Foundation is announcing that Karlsruhe, Germany, will host GUADEC in the summer of 2016. Karlsruhe is situated in the Southern part of Germany and is Germany’s sunniest city. It is easy to get to as it is a short trip from both Frankfurt international airport and Stuttgart airport.…
The GNOME Asia team is pleased to announce that next year's GNOME.Asia Summit will be held in Delhi, at the Manav Rachna International University (MRIU). This is located in the Faridabad distract just south of the National Capital Territory (New Delhi). GNOME.Asia 2016 will be held between the 21st and 24th of…
Today marks the beginning of a new financial year, and the GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the release of its latest annual report, which covers the outgoing 2014 financial year. The Report reviews all the events and activities in the GNOME project during the 2014 financial year, including hackfests, conferences, our releases,…
The GNOME project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.18. The new version is the result of six months' hard work by the GNOME community, and includes 25,112 changes by 772 contributors. 3.18 has been named “Gothenburg” in recognition of this year's GUADEC organising team. GUADEC is GNOME’s main annual…
We are pleased to announce that the GNOME Foundation as one of several prominent FOSS projects endorses the User Data Manifesto version 2.0 Announced on 29 August at the ownCloud Contributor Conference in Berlin the User Data Manifesto version 2.0 is a more concise and clarified version of the original User Data Manifesto. It defines…
Boston Summit is GNOME's annual event in North America. It is held every year on the Columbus Day weekend, and is an informal opportunity for contributors, enthusiasts and newcomers to get together. Previous summits have included planning meetings, tutorials for newcomers, hacking sessions, hardware testing, and more. There is also typically a…
GUADEC 2015 ran from 7-12 August, in Gothenburg, Sweden. We've put a gallery of photos together from the conference. Enjoy! Photos credit: Garrett LeSage, Oliver Propst & Jakub Steiner.
GUADEC is the GNOME project's primary annual event, held every year in a different European city. This year, it was the turn of Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference brought together contributors, enthusiasts and partners from around the world for three days of talks, followed by three days of workshops (called "Birds of a…
Today, GNOME turns 18. On Friday, August 15, 1997, GNOME was founded by two then-university students, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero. Their aim: to produce a free (as in freedom) desktop environment that is beautiful and simple to use. In September, we will welcome the release of GNOME 3.18 which…