Software Freedom Conservancy and the GNOME Foundation together announce that the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program is moving from GNOME to Conservancy. As Karen Sandler, Executive Director of Conservancy and co-organizer of the Outreach Program, announced in her keynote at FOSDEM this weekend, the program will be rebranding as part…
This weekend GNOME will be present at FOSDEM, one of the largest gatherings for Free Software contributors and enthusiasts taking place in Brussels, Belgium January 31 - February 01. GNOME is hosting a booth where attendees can test the latest GNOME version, get promotion material, talk to contributors and learn more about how to…
Christan Hergert's Builder fundraiser has concluded. The fundraiser surpassed its original goal allowing Christian to dedicate extra time to the development of Builder. Christian stated in a comment "The overwhelming support of the community is both heartwarming and inspiring. I'm excited to get to continue working on a project that I think is…
Several GNOME contributors will in the coming days meet for the Developer Experience and Documentation Hackfest taking place in Cambridge, UK. Important items on the agenda for the Developer Experience Hackfest include the GTK+ roadmap, OpenGL GTK+ integration and Builder. The documentation team will work on user-help for the upcoming GNOME 3.16 release.…
Christian Hergert have set out to improve the developer experience on GNOME with his new project, Builder. We sit down with him to discuss why we need another IDE, developer tools, missing GNOME apps and more. Q: Who are you, what is Builder, why are you creating it? I’m a long…
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.…
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…
The GNOME Asia Committee is pleased to announce that the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted in Depok Indonesia May 7-9 2015. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to GNOME 3. The GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted at the Universitas…
Thank you so much for your donations and help in spreading the word! We are overwhelmed and reinvigorated by the support we received from everyone, which has resulted in the following joint announcement that we're publishing with Groupon: "Groupon has agreed to change its Gnome product name to resolve the GNOME Foundation's…
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…