Earlier this week, Neil McGovern announced that he is due to be stepping down as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation later this year. As the President of the board and Neil’s effective manager together with the Executive Committee, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on his achievements in the past…
The GNOME Foundation was supported during 2020-2021 by a grant from Endless Network which funded the Community Engagement Challenge, strategy consultancy with the board, and a contribution towards our general running costs. At the end of last year we had a portion of this grant remaining, and after the success of our…
As the end of the year approaches, we wanted to take a moment to thank our community for supporting GNOME! It is because of contributions from our Friends of GNOME, one-time donors, and project contributors that we were able to: Release GNOME 40 and 41Organize GUADEC , GNOME.Asia , GNOME Onboard Africa , LAS , and moreRepresented GNOME at over 16 conferences and…
We are pleased to announce the official release of GNOME 41. This release, the second to use our new version numbering scheme, comes after six months of work by the GNOME community and brings an improved Software app, new multitasking settings, enhanced power management features, and many smaller updates. GNOME 41 also…
We’re excited to announce that registration for GNOME Asia Summit 2021 is open! You can now register online here. GNOME Asia Summit 2021 will take place online from November 20th– 21st. Talk topics will include the GNOME desktop and a range of other GNOME-specific, free and open source software, and tech topics. The…
2020 was a very unique year! Throughout the past year, we have navigated through many challenges, implemented many changes and new technologies, and come through it with better ways to help us work together and gather the community remotely. We're excited to share these challenges and changes along with some of our…
GNOME.Asia Summit 2021 invites you to participate as a speaker at the conference on the 20th and 21st of November 2021 by submitting your abstract. GNOME.Asia is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia and focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, applications, and platform development tools. The Summit brings together the GNOME community…
Our largest community conference, GUADEC, starts in just a few days and we couldn't be more excited. This year's conference will be held virtually and runs from Jul 21-25. Registration is open and by donation so let us know you're coming by signing up online. Register Now Schedule This year's schedule is…
Red Hat is a Gold Sponsor of GUADEC 2021! We're pleased to welcome them back to GUADEC for another year. As a Gold Sponsor, they will be hosting office hours on Wednesday, July 21. This will provide an opportunity for attendees to talk directly with Red Hat, about a range of topics, including the many GNOME-related activities…
We are happy to announce that we have officially opened the call for workshops, BoFs and lightning talks. We highly encourage everyone to submit a session. These sessions are a great way to share your thoughts with others, discuss various topics, receive feedback and help specific projects move forward. Bofs and Workshops can be…