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…
The GNOME Release Team has announced the availability of GNOME 3.4. This latest version comes six months after the last GNOME release and includes major new features, significant updates to a host of GNOME applications, and a huge number smaller fixes and refinements. Matthias Clasen, who oversaw the completion of the release,…
The GNOME Release Team's Javier Jardón announced the availability of the 3.4 Release Candidate yesterday. This is the final development version of GNOME 3.4, and puts the next version of GNOME 3 on track for completion next week. GNOME 3.4 promises to deliver major new features, updated applications and wide-scale improvements to…
GNOME will be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) once again this year. GSoC gives students from around the world the chance to work on free and open source software projects. Since its inception in 2005 more than 6000 students from 100+ countries have had a chance to learn from some…
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Welcome, and thank you for your valuable contributions so far! So here we go with our newly approved members: Simon Schampijer (PyGobject patches, Bugzilla contributions, GNOME Hackfests) Rūdolfs Mazurs (GNOME Latvian translator) Peteris Krisjanis (GNOME Latvian translator) Giovanni…