With GUADEC 2012 starting in just two weeks, GNOME News is starting a series of interviews with members of the local organizing team. Our first interview is from one of the members of the local team, Laura M. Castro. Where do you live and/or work? I live and work in A Coruña.…
The full program for this year's GUADEC conference has been announced. GUADEC is the premier GNOME conference, and is being held in a Coruña, Spain, from July 26th to August 1st. A total of 46 talks will be held during the core conference days, as well as 4 keynotes and a number…
The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC 2013. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME users and developers and includes a three-day conference, the annual general meeting of the members of the GNOME Foundation, and a week of coding, meeting, and discussion. Those who would like to host the next GUADEC…
The GNOME Foundation Membership and the GNOME Elections Committee this week announced the final results for GNOME's 2012-2013 Board of Directors. The winners are: Emmanuele Bassi Joanmarie Diggs Seif Lotfy Shaun McCance Tobias Mueller Andreas Nilsson Bastien Nocera The new Board will begin officially in their leadership roles next month. Karen Sandler,…
We're closing in on our goal of $20,000 for our accessibility campaign. If you haven't already, take a look at the testimonial by Diego Sánchez that we've been lucky to include. As Diego says, GNOME 3 has really helped him: "I'm happy because I can now use the computer in my classroom…
The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce its latest round of the Outreach Program for Women Internships, for which it has been able to accept ten outstanding applicants. GNOME's efforts are made possible by the strong sponsorship that the program has received from free software companies and organizations committed to increasing the…
The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce that 29 students have been accepted to work on GNOME through Google Summer of Code this year. The students will work on a wide range of projects improving the core GNOME 3 experience, GNOME technologies, and popular applications. Some applications that the students will work…
GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s primier GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. This year's conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing…
Last month, GNOME Foundation have had more members to join its warm family. We are happy to announce that the new members are as follows: Dan Vrátil (Evolution's porting to WebKit, Bugzilla contributions) Stefano Candori (GNOME Activity Journal maintainer and Zeitgeist Andres Gomez (Organized GUADEC in the past, sponsors GNOME through Igalia…
The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to welcome the Software Freedom Conservancy to its 2012 Outreach Program for Women. The Outreach Program for Women seeks to engage women in the development, documentation and general improvement of open source and free software. Concurrently with the Google Summer of Code, the Outreach Program for Women…