As part of the Outreach Program for Women in GNOME, the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring at least three internships for women from December 12, 2011 to March 12, 2012. The application deadline is October 31, 2011. These internship dates are aimed at the college women in the Southern Hemisphere who will have…
A big "Thank You!" to all the sponsors, Technologiestiftung Berlin (TSB; in English, Technology Foundation of Berlin), Humboldt University of Berlin, and nearly 800 attendees who gathered from around the world to make a successful Desktop Summit 2011! Attendees gathered in Berlin to review progress, share ideas and work together on various…
For the second and third full days at the Desktop Summit, the organizers played a little trick on us by starting talks at 9:00 a.m. Those who were awake enough after the dinners and chat of the previous night were treated to talks on Calligra (the KDE creativity and productivity suite), suggestions…
Friday, 10:00, August 5, 2011. A big group of people was standing a bit lost in the cloakroom of the Humboldt University at Unter den Linden, Berlin. They were the volunteers for the Desktop Summit 2011 – but without guidance and leadership, they were just nervously looking around and talking to each other.
But at 11:00, Mirko Boehm came in, gathered everyone together and told them what to do! Tables got moved, tape stuck to floors, posters hung up. From then, things really took off.
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Should free and open source projects and companies require people to sign community agreements in order to contribute, possibly signing over their copyrights? Karen Sandler, GNOME Foundation Executive Director, will be chairing an expert panel on this question at this year's Desktop Summit in Berlin. The panel will include Mark Shuttleworth, Michael…
We are pleased to announce that the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin will be supported by Intel as Platinum sponsor. The event also welcomes Collabora and SUSE as Gold partners. The organization is delighted with the community spirit of these generous corporate partners. Mirko Boehm, Lead organizer of the Desktop Summit, said:…
The GNOME Quarterly report is a document that comes out four times a year and highlights some of the efforts our teams have been up to of late. This quarters edition brings news from the Release Team, Art and Usability, Bug Squad, Marketing, Mobile, Website, Documentation, Membership, Events, Outreach Program for Women,…
The DesktopSummit 2011 team is pleased to announce the Intel AppUpSM Application Lab: MeeGo Series. The session will take place at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany as part of the Desktop Summit. Intel® is the Platinum Sponsor of the Summit. Scheduled from 15:00-18:00 on August 10th, this free, hands-on training aims…
Continuing our series of interviews with Desktop Summit keynote speakers, William Carlson spoke to Dirk Hohndel, Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, about the relationship between business and Open Source. Interesting insights from a hacker-turned-businessman with a track record in the Linux kernel and XFree86. On whether Open Source is a…
The second in our series of Desktop Summit keynote interviews is with Claire Rowland, Head of Research at Fjord, an international digital service design agency. Claire will be talking to us about user interface design in the era of cloud services: the axis of user experience has shifted away from the desktop…