With the summer coming closer, the GNOME Foundation are excited to announce applications are open for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreach Program for Women. Outreach Program for Women Outreach Program for Women offers a $5500 stipend for a four months internship working with a Free/Open Source organization. The program accepts…
GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 will be held in Beijing, China in May 24-25, 2014. We are looking for YOUR help to design t-shirts for this year's Summit. We need two new shirt designs, one for participants and another for volunteers. The contest is open from now until March 31st, 2014. Voting will begin April 1st and…
The GNOME Foundation congratulates Allan Day on being included in the shortlist of candidates being considered for the individual category of the UK Open Source Awards for his "positive impact on Open Source software in the UK." Allan won the prestigious annual award for key contributor in the GNOME community last year…
GNOME is pleased to announce that it is hosting a fundraising campaign for Pitivi. Their fundraising page launched today, with a video explaining the campaign (which was made with Pitivi). As they say in their announcement: Free and Open Source video editing is something that can help make the world a better…
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…
The GNOME Documentation Team met in Norwich, UK, this week for a five day hackfest. Held from January 26 to January 30, the event was hosted at the University of East Anglia's School of Computer Science. The hackfest was very successful, and included fifteen attendees as well as five remote participants. The…
The annual WebKitGTK+ hackfest is currently underway in A Coruña, Spain. Going into its fifth year, 2013's event is the biggest so far, including an unprecedented 30 participants. The four day event is focusing on everything web in GNOME and GTK+. WebKitGTK+ developer Claudio Saavedra reports that multiple web processes and user…
The annual GNOME summit starts tomorrow. Contributors are gathering from around the world for four days of discussion and working sessions. Scheduled topics include Wayland, Boxes, and the GNOME continuous build system. Traditionally held in Boston, this is the 13th GNOME summit, and the second to be held in Montréal. The summit…
The life of Matt Dalio changed when, at very young age, he lived for a year in Beijing, China.There he was able to discover difficulties suffered by many children, many of which were orphans. Starting from this experience Matt decide to start the China Care Foundation an association that has raised over $14 million…
The latest update to GNOME 3, version 3.10, has been released. This release comes six months after the previous version, and includes new features, new applications, and many improvements. Introducing the release, Allan Day (GNOME Design Team) said, ‟GNOME 3.10 is a significant upgrade for our users, and developers will benefit from…