GNOME Receives Hardware Donations to Assist with High-Definition Support

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Photo by David King The GNOME Foundation has received several generous donations of laptops, which will be made available to contributors to assist with ongoing work on high-definition display support. High-definition displays offer a significant improvement over traditional hardware, and are set to become increasingly popular in the future. GNOME is working…

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GUADEC 2013 Program Published

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The core program for this year's GUADEC conference has been announced. GUADEC is the premier GNOME conference, and is being held in Brno, Czech Republic from August 1st to 8th. A total of 40 talks will be held during the core conference days, as well as 4 keynotes and a number of…

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GNOME Accessibility bid selected

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The GNOME Foundation Board is happy to announce that following the Call for Bids for GNOME Accessibility Work, Igalia, a Spanish company, was selected to perform the work. We received a great bid from Igalia with a detailed analysis of the current state of document accessibility within GNOME and a comprehensive plan…

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Report from the FreeDesktop Summit

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During the week of 8 April 2013, developers from the KDE, GNOME, Unity and Razor-qt projects met at the SUSE offices in Nürnberg to improve collaboration between the projects by discussing specifications. A wide range of topics was covered. There was agreement on a specification for a D-Bus interface to be implemented…

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GNOME 3.8 Released

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The GNOME Project has officially released GNOME 3.8 today. This latest version of GNOME 3 delivers major new features, a brand new application and a host of smaller bug fixes and enhancements. Speaking on behalf of the GNOME Release Team, Matthias Clasen said, “We are excited to release this latest version of…

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In memory of Malcolmn Tredinnick

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GNOME lost an old friend last week. Malcolmn Tredinnick passed away on Sunday, March 17. Malcolm was probably best known for his work on Django, but before his work with Django, he was a member of the GNOME community. He made contributions across the entire GNOME project, and he served a year…

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