A group of GNOME contributors will be gathering to accomplish important work. A User Observation Hackfest that will be hosted at the openSUSE Summit in Orlando, Florida (USA), on September 21-23, 2012. The purpose of this hackfest is to gather knowledge to seed GNOME's Pattern language for user interfaces and consequently improve…
This summer, the GNOME project has had the great pleasure of having a total of 39 interns working with us. This included 29 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) interns as well as 10 participants in the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (GOPW). The internships officially ended yesterday, and we'd like to take…
Fifteen years ago today the GNOME Project was announced by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero. We've put up a special website today to help celebrate all those years of software freedom at: http://www.happybirthdaygnome.org - we hope you will come take a stroll down memory lane with us!
This year's GNOME Boston Summit will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Columbus Day Weekend (6th - 8th October), at the MIT Tang Center. The Boston Summit is a three-day event for GNOME developers and contributors. Unlike traditional conferences, Boston Summit is all about getting developers together and getting…
Today's interview is from Seif Lotfy, one of the new GNOME Foundation board members. Where do you live/work? Darmstadt, 30km south of Frankfurt Germany. Why is open source/free software important to you? I believe open source/free software promotes innovation, due to its nature of crowd sourcing. How/when/why did you become involved in…
In the last year, the GNOME Outreach Program made several improvements to its central projects, the Outreach Program for Women and Google Summer of Code. Some of these improvements are making sure each intern connects with a potential mentor ahead of time, contributes a patch to the relevant module as part of…
GUADEC is only a few days away, but GNOME contributors are already gathering in A Coruña and getting down to some important work. Today marks the beginning of a two-day design event that is being hosted in the Igalia A Coruña office. The UX Hackfest brings GNOME designers and developers together to…
Our next interview comes from another member of the local GUADEC organizing team Emilio J Padrón. Whats your name? Emilio J. Padrón Where do you live and/or work? I both live and work in A Coruña, though I often stay in Ourense as well, my hometown. What do you like to do…
Our next interview comes from the President of the GPUL-Linux Users and Developers Group, Francisco Javier Tsao Santín. GPUL is the main local organizer involved in the organization of GUADEC 2012 in A Coruña, Spain. Whats your name? Francisco Javier Tsao Santín Where do you live and/or work? I live in a…
Our next interview comes from Serafín "riptide" Villar, who is a member of the local GUADEC organizing team. Where do you live and/or work? Now I'm living in Cambre (a town near A Coruña) and work throughout Galicia. What do you like to do in your free time? Any kind of stuff…