Two major GNOME hackfests will be simultaneously taking place in Brno, Czech Republic, this week. A GTK+ Hackfest will focus on the GNOME toolkit, while a Doc Sprint will be an important opportunity for our documentation writers to prepare for the upcoming GNOME 3.4 release. The GTK+ hackfest will begin on Friday,…
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions to GNOME! They are: Sergio Villar Senín (WebKitGtk+, libsoup and Epiphany) Christy Eller (GNOME's OPW internship, GNOME Marketing and gnome.org's development) Julita Inca Chiroque (GNOME Documentation, GNOME's…
The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas…
GNOME will be very present at FOSDEM 2012. The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium. GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this…
Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won Best Desktop Environment and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted Product of the Year award. Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters…
GNOME accessibility contributors will be gathering for a four day hackfest in A Coruña, Spain, next week. Together, they will be working to enhance GNOME's assistive technologies, which allow people with disabilities such as visual, movement, hearing, cognitive and language impairments to use GNOME software. The hackfest will be focusing on two…