2014 Highlights

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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.…

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GNOME.Asia Join Kaiyuanshe – Open Source Alliance in China

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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…

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GNOME starts campaign to protect its trademarks

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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…

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Engagement team members will gather at FSCONS this weekend

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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…

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GNOME Boston Summit 2014 starts tomorrow

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  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.…

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GNOME 3.14 Video Published

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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…

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GNOME 3.14 Released

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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…

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