The GNOME Foundation and the Wau Holland Foundation (Wau Holland Stiftung; WHS) have recently reached an agreement that will significantly improve the way donations to GNOME within the European Union (EU) are received and managed. Prior to signing this agreement, the GNOME Foundation was able to receive donations through many payment methods…
After three intensive days, West Coast Summit 2015 has concluded in San Francisco. The summit gathered core GNOME contributors and Endless employees, as well as elementary OS contributors. Topics that were covered during the summit included: Application sandboxing and xdg-app Application development and Builder GTK+ and multi-touch App stores and AppStream Mutter (Screen rotation)…
GNOME is once again participating as a mentoring organization in Google of Summer Code (GSoC), which provides stipends for students to work on Free Software projects over the summer. GSoC students will work on many improvements to GNOME, including: an image viewing widget for GTK+, additional event sources for GNOME Shell's time…
The GNOME project is sad to have learnt that Marco Pesenti Gritti recently passed away after a long fight with cancer. Marco made major contributions to GNOME, having been the original author of both the Epiphany (also known as "Web") browser and Evince, the GNOME PDF reader. Besides his significant contributions and…
Last week GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 concluded in Depok, Indonesia. We now have a gallery with pictures from the Summit to share. Again, many thanks to everyone (including sponsors) who made the 2015 Summit possible! With pictures like these its easy to feel optimistic about GNOME's future in Asia. Photo license note: CC…
After three intensive days the GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 have concluded in Depok, Indonesia. The 2015 Summit started off with a series of workshops with a focus on how to start contribute to GNOME. The second day included presentations about about Bug Triaging (Andre Klapper), Application Sandboxing (David King) and Using GStreamer in…
The 2015 Edition of the GNOME Asia Summit that is taking place in Depok, Indonesia started today. GNOME Asia Summit 2015 promises several days of learning, community building and fun. In addition to the many local speakers, several established contributers including Tobias Muller, David King and Ekaterina Gerasimova participate. The Summit covers a…
The GNOME project has released GNOME 3.16, the latest version of GNOME 3. The new version is the result of six months work, and includes 33,525 changes by 1043 authors. Speaking on behalf of the Release Team, Javier Jardón said: “It's great to see the fantastic results of our hard work, and…
Orinda, CA– The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.16 today, the result of six months work, which includes 33,525 changes by 1043 authors. GNOME 3.16 brings a brand new notification system in response to the feedback of enthusiastic GNOME users. GNOME 3’s visuals have also received a…
The GNOME Foundation supports the Software Freedom Conservancy in its efforts to ensure compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) through Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware. Like the Linux kernel, the GNOME Project chooses the GPL (as well as the LGPL) to license our software. Working in Free Software is a…