First day of GUADEC 2014 wraps up in Strasbourg, France

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The first day of this year's GUADEC conference has wrapped up in Strasbourg, France. As usual, there were lots of fond reunions for long-standing contributors, as well as new faces who got their first chance to meet fellow GNOME contributors face-to-face. In the morning, Jim Hall gave a well-received keynote on his…

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GUADEC starts today!

GUADEC, the main GNOME conference, is about to start in Strasbourg, located in the eastern part of France. It will gather users, developers, governments and businesses to talk about the status and future of the GNOME project between the July 25 and August 1. "More than 10 years after the first GUADEC…

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Evince hackfest taking place in Strasbourg ahead of GUADEC

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GUADEC is only a few days away, but some GNOME contributors are already gathering in Strasbourg to improve the GNOME document reader, Evince. Their goals include: making further improvements to accessibility support, implementing tiling support to allow infinite zoom, improving the support for PDF annotations, revamping the comics back-end and reviewing and…

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GUADEC 2014: What to Expect

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GUADEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, is the largest GNOME event of the year, drawing contributors from all over the world. This year's conference is approaching, and will be held in Strasbourg, from July 26 to August 1. GUADEC is an invaluable opportunity for contributors to share what they have…

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GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest Underway in Berlin

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GNOME contributors and developers are currently gathered in Berlin, Germany, for a three day Developer Experience Hackfest. The event is focused on the GNOME application developer platform. Participants working to ensure that developers can easily create high quality applications for GNOME. Topics being covered at the event include: GTK+ planning, and the…

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FreeDesktop Summit Underway in Nuremberg

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Developers from the major Linux Desktops (GNOME, KDE, RazorQt and Unity) are currently meeting in Nuremberg for the second FreeDesktop Summit. The summit is a joint technical meeting from developers working on 'desktop infrastructure' on the major Free Desktop projects and the event aims to improve collaboration between the projects by discussing…

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GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 is now Calling for Papers

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GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 invites proposals for presentations at the conference. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia's GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The conference will be held in BeiHang University, Beijing, China on May 24 -25, 2014.  The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.12, helping to bring…

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