Every edition of GUADEC is organized by passionate contributors who work hard to welcome the GNOME community to their home town or country. They are part of what we call the Local Organizing Team, and they make sure GUADEC has a place and the structure needed to happen. This year's GUADEC is…
GUADEC 2014 is almost upon us, and we are talking to the three keynote speakers who are lined up for this year's conference. Nathan Wills - LWN editor, typeface designer and author - is one of these keynote speakers. His talk, titled Should We Teach The Robot To Kill, addresses issues relating…
GUADEC couldn't happen without the help of volunteers. These are attendees that dedicate part of their conference experience to help the organizing team. They are there to make sure things run smoothly, and are always available to help. Shivani Poddar was a volunteer during last year's GUADEC in Brno, her first GUADEC…
GUADEC 2014 is just around the corner, and three exciting keynote speakers will be presenting during the conference. We took the opportunity to speak to Matthew Garrett, who will be giving one of those keynotes, about his keynote and about this year's GUADEC. Hi Matthew, many know you for your work on…
We recently had the chance to sit down and talk to Andrew Lee, co-founder of GNOME's newest advisory board member Private Internet Access. Andrew Lee is a long-time privacy advocate, and has co-founded several other privacy related companies in the past including Mt Gox Live which was later acquired by Mt Gox…
GNOME recently raised $20,000 to fund security and privacy enhancements to our software. We are extremely excited by this, and want to thank everyone who contributed. One person who we are especially grateful to is Gavin Ferris, who was a particularly generous contributor to the fund raising campaign. We recently spoke to…
Cathy Malmrose discovered Free Software in 2007, when her son showed her Ubuntu. She realized that she could build computers optimized for GNU/Linux, and now runs ZaReason, a company which sells computers preloaded with Linux. Now ZaReason has opened its first shop in Berkley, CA and is poised to launch ZaTab, a…
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the imminent release of GNOME 3.8 in less than two weeks. As with every release, there are many new features and technical improvements. We asked William Jon McCann, a GNOME designer, about the direction of the project and what he is anticipating for GNOME in…
Behind the scenes: Andrea Veri, the new GNOME part-time System Administrator. Some days ago Andrea Veri was chosen by the GNOME Foundation to support and maintain GNOME's IT infrastructure. His hiring comes at the end of a journey, during which Andrea has shown his technical abilities and passion for GNOME, and could be considered a…
Today's interview is from Seif Lotfy, one of the new GNOME Foundation board members. Where do you live/work? Darmstadt, 30km south of Frankfurt Germany. Why is open source/free software important to you? I believe open source/free software promotes innovation, due to its nature of crowd sourcing. How/when/why did you become involved in…