Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won Best Desktop Environment and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted Product of the Year award. Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters…
GNOME accessibility contributors will be gathering for a four day hackfest in A Coruña, Spain, next week. Together, they will be working to enhance GNOME's assistive technologies, which allow people with disabilities such as visual, movement, hearing, cognitive and language impairments to use GNOME software. The hackfest will be focusing on two…
Today the GNOME Foundation announces a fundraising campaign to kick off 2012 as the Year of Accessibility for GNOME. GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project's inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became an award winning accessible free desktop…
GROTON, Mass -- December 13, 2011 -- GUADEC, the primary GNOME User and Developer European Conference (www.guadec.org), will be held in A Coruña, Spain from July 26 to 29, 2012, with hackfests and other meetings to be held on July 30 through August 1. The conference is expected to draw hundreds of…
The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the conclusion of the WebKitGTK+Hackfest this week in A Coruña, Spain. The hackfest was held from November 29 to December 5 and was hosted by Igalia at its offices. There were attendees from Red Hat, Motorola, Collabora and Igalia. The hackfest was extremely productive, and…
A new GNOME initiative called Every Detail Matters was announced today. It aims to help to take GNOME's software to the next level by coordinating work to make it more polished and refined. A key part of the initiative will be the identification of small details that could be improved. Every Detail…
GNOME is participating in the Google Code-In 2011 (GCI), which takes place from November 21, 2011 - January 16, 2012. Google Code-In gives pre-university students aged 13-17 the opportunity to participate in a variety of FOSS projects. The last GCI included 361 students from 48 countries who completed over 2000 tasks. Andre…
Groton, MA, November 16 2011: In each of the previous six years, at most one female student participated in Google Summer of Code in GNOME. This year, there were seven. The GNOME Outreach Program for Women attracted these applicants and connected them with mentors, who helped them with their first contribution. While…
The Montreal Summit turned out to be a very fun and productive gathering last week. With the 3.2 release behind us, much of the discussions were at a pretty high level, and there was a lot of discussion about the state of GNOME and its path going forward. This was reflected in…
Groton, MA, September 28 2011: Today, the GNOME Desktop project released GNOME 3.2, the first follow-up release to its ground-breaking GNOME 3.0. With GNOME 3, GNOME undertook a major redesign and reimagined the user interface for the next generation of the desktop. From 3.2, GNOME is refining the project and starting to…