After three years of planning and development, GNOME 3.0 is here. This new version of GNOME delivers an exciting new interface, major improvements under the hood, and enhanced applications. The GNOME release team's official announcement congratulates and thanks the GNOME community for its hard work on the release: GNOME 3.0 would not…
Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today, the GNOME Desktop project released GNOME 3.0, its most significant redesign of the computer experience in nine years. A revolutionary new user interface and new features for developers make this a historic moment for the free and open source desktop. Within GNOME 3, GNOME Shell reimagines…
April 1 (April Fools' Day), 2011 — BANGALORE, India — The GNOME Release Team met in India this week to discuss the state of GNOME 3. The Release Team came to a consensus opinion that one more cycle will be required before GNOME 3.0 is ready to be released. The decision was…
Application deadline: April 8, 2011 Program dates: May 23 - August 22, 2011 GNOME is one of many Free Software projects participating in Google Summer of Code this year. Because in the past GNOME had few women applying for Google Summer of Code, we've organized Outreach Program for Women internships to engage…
The recent GNOME t-shirt competition had an incredible response, with hundreds of people sending in designs for GNOME 3 t-shirts. It took a while for the judges to come to a decision, but now the winners have been announced. Congratulations to Sofie van Schadewijk, Vassilina Pljonkina and Weda Kusuma for taking first, second…
For those organizing a GNOME 3.0 Launch Party, here is the good news: The GNOME Foundation will give away some goodies(t-shirts, balloons, stickers...) to support your events. Register now! Please help us spread the word and get a few launch parties in your area. Happy GNOME 3.0 Release Party!
November 5, 2010 — BOSTON, Mass. — The GNOME project is proud to announce the participants of the Outreach Program for Women internships. Thanks to generous sponsors, Google, Collabora and the GNOME Foundation, GNOME was able to accept eight really strong candidates. These eight women from North America, South America and Asia…
October 25, 2010 — BOSTON, Mass. — The GNOME Project has received two grants for a total of $15,000 from Mozilla and from the F123.org-Mais Diferenças partnership for accessibility work. Mozilla has once again stepped up to support GNOME accessibility (a11y) work with a $10,000 grant. The F123-Mais Diferenças partnership has awarded…
Berlin, 6th October, 2010 - The Desktop Summit is a co-located event which features the yearly contributor conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy. Next year the conference will take place from 6 to 12 August, 2011 in Berlin at the Humboldt University in Unter den Linden. The event…
BOSTON, Mass — September 17, 2010 — The GNOME Foundation has launched an alpha for Tomboy Online this week as a first step towards an integrated Web and desktop free software stack. Just in time for Software Freedom Day on September 18, the GNOME Foundation is taking a major step towards the…