GNOME will be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) once again this year. GSoC gives students from around the world the chance to work on free and open source software projects. Since its inception in 2005 more than 6000 students from 100+ countries have had a chance to learn from some of the best [...]

Board and Executive Director By: Karen Sandler The fourth quarter of 2011 was an exciting one for me as Executive Director. I keynoted the LATA event in Riga where I discussed GNOME 3 and software freedom and heard about GNU/Linux in Latvia. I also attended UDS, along with a number of other GNOME developers. The [...]

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Welcome, and thank you for your valuable contributions so far! So here we go with our newly approved members: Simon Schampijer (PyGobject patches, Bugzilla contributions, GNOME Hackfests) Rūdolfs Mazurs (GNOME Latvian translator) Peteris Krisjanis (GNOME Latvian translator) Giovanni Campagna (GNOME Shell [...]

Bugsquad André Klapper From April to June, 7333 reports (bugs + feature requests) were opened and 6451 were closed. Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha (467 reports), Fabio Durán Verdugo (329), Sebastian Dröge (262), Cosimo Cecchi (246) and Matthias Clasen (230). Top bug reporters were Guillaume Desmottes (69 reports), Colin Walters (69), Joanmarie Diggs (67), [...]

Hi GNOME Foundation members and fans, Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and this one was bigger and better than usual. During Q3 we had our annual GUADEC, GNOME Users and Developers Conference, which we held jointly with Akademy in the first ever Gran Canaria Desktop Summit! The co-located event was [...]

Board of Directors Brian Cameron First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to express a huge thank you to all the volunteers who help to make the GNOME community possible, and to all those who use the GNOME desktop and understand the value of free software on the desktop. It is [...]

Hi GNOME Foundation members and fans, Q4 is normally a quiet quarter – but not for GNOME! We ended the year with a lot of really productive activity. We had a record four hackfests and two summits, the Boston Summit and GNOME Asia. Lots of progress was made, plans were set for 2010 and we’re [...]

Release Team Frederic Peters The release team had all its eyes on the preparation of GNOME 3.0, in preparation of the release climax. From March, with many freezes then in place we got to review/accept/decline lots of requests (Olav had a post about this on his blog ). And the quarter ended with three members of [...]

Board of Directors Brian Cameron First of all, the GNOME Foundation board of directors would like to express a huge thank you to all you volunteers who help to make the GNOME community possible. To all those who use the GNOME desktop and understand the value of free software on the desktop, it is you [...]

February 28, 2012: A Coruña, Spain. A public Call for Participation has officially opened for the 2012 GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC) conference. Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux (GPUL), this year’s organizers of the event, anticipate a wide range of speakers and hundreds of participants to once again make this conference [...]