Several GNOME contributors will in the coming days meet for the Developer Experience and Documentation Hackfest taking place in Cambridge, UK. Important items on the agenda for the Developer Experience Hackfest include the GTK+ roadmap, OpenGL GTK+ integration and Builder. The documentation team will work on user-help for the upcoming GNOME 3.16 release.…
Christian Hergert have set out to improve the developer experience on GNOME with his new project, Builder. We sit down with him to discuss why we need another IDE, developer tools, missing GNOME apps and more. Q: Who are you, what is Builder, why are you creating it? I’m a long…
Its been both an exciting and challenging year for us, this post includes some of the highlights. Early in the spring Karen Sandler announced her departure* as the Executive Director of the foundation. The GNOME Asia Summit, an event with a strong community building focus, was this year hosted in Beijing, China.…
We are thrilled to report that GNOME.Asia is a founding member of KAIYUANSHE(开源社) launched Oct 16, 2014. KAIYUANSHE roughly translated as “open source alliance,” is a group of enterprises, communities, and individuals in China supporting and promoting free and open source software (FOSS). KAIYUANSHE will support the growing needs of China’s growing…
The GNOME Asia Committee is pleased to announce that the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted in Depok Indonesia May 7-9 2015. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to GNOME 3. The GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted at the Universitas…
Thank you so much for your donations and help in spreading the word! We are overwhelmed and reinvigorated by the support we received from everyone, which has resulted in the following joint announcement that we're publishing with Groupon: "Groupon has agreed to change its Gnome product name to resolve the GNOME Foundation's…
GNOME has launched a campaign to raise funds for protecting the GNOME trademarks. Recently, Groupon launched Gnome, a tablet-based point of sale (POS) system that Groupon describes as a "platform" and an "operating system". The GNOME Foundation is concerned and sees their long-established mark for Free Software, GNOME, endangered. The GNOME Foundation…
Several members of the GNOME Engagement Team will gather this weekend at FSCONS. FSCONS is an annual gathering for free software in the Nordic countries, taking place in Gothenburg Sweden. GNOME will be present with a booth where contributors will show the latest version of GNOME, answer questions and help new people…
GNOME Summit 2014 starts tomorrow. The GNOME Summit is an annual gathering of contributors from around the world that features three-days of discussion and working sessions. After the last summit, held in Montreal it's this year back in Boston. Scheduled topics include: Wayland, App development, Privacy and the GNOME Continuous build system.…
With GNOME 3.14 just released, the GNOME project has published a video that demos the new GNOME version. The short film is a great way to learn about the new features - and see some of the attention to detail - in the new release. As always, more details can be found…