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…
February 28, 2012: A Coruña, Spain. A public Call for Participation has officially opened for the 2012 GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC) conference. Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux (GPUL), this year's organizers of the event, anticipate a wide range of speakers and hundreds of participants to once again…
Many new members have been joining the GNOME Foundation recently, which is always great news. The latest to join are: Olivier Sessink (Bluefish's author, huge Bugzilla's contributions) Antono Vasiljev (GObject Introspection, Bug triaging and fixing, GNOME Esperanto Translator) Christian Hergert (contributions to Glib, GTK) Nick Richards (GTK+ and Empathy code contributions) Eduardo…
It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces that Hong Kong has been selected as the venue of our upcoming GNOME.Asia 2012. GNOME.Asia 2012 follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place…
Two major GNOME hackfests will be simultaneously taking place in Brno, Czech Republic, this week. A GTK+ Hackfest will focus on the GNOME toolkit, while a Doc Sprint will be an important opportunity for our documentation writers to prepare for the upcoming GNOME 3.4 release. The GTK+ hackfest will begin on Friday,…
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions to GNOME! They are: Sergio Villar Senín (WebKitGtk+, libsoup and Epiphany) Christy Eller (GNOME's OPW internship, GNOME Marketing and gnome.org's development) Julita Inca Chiroque (GNOME Documentation, GNOME's…
The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas…
GNOME will be very present at FOSDEM 2012. The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium. GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this…