Many new members have been joining the GNOME Foundation recently, which is always great news. The latest to join are: Olivier Sessink (Bluefish’s author, huge Bugzilla’s contributions) Antono Vasiljev (GObject Introspection, Bug triaging and fixing, GNOME Esperanto Translator) Christian Hergert (contributions to Glib, GTK) Nick Richards (GTK+ and Empathy code contributions) Eduardo Lima Mitev (Instrospection [...]

It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces that Hong Kong has been selected as the venue of our upcoming GNOME.Asia 2012. GNOME.Asia 2012 follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and [...]

Two major GNOME hackfests will be simultaneously taking place in Brno, Czech Republic, this week. A GTK+ Hackfest will focus on the GNOME toolkit, while a Doc Sprint will be an important opportunity for our documentation writers to prepare for the upcoming GNOME 3.4 release. The GTK+ hackfest will begin on Friday, 2/17 and will [...]

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions to GNOME! They are: Sergio Villar Senín (WebKitGtk+, libsoup and Epiphany) Christy Eller (GNOME’s OPW internship, GNOME Marketing and gnome.org’s development) Julita Inca Chiroque (GNOME Documentation, GNOME’s OPW internship) Aurimas [...]

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas like GTK, ATK, [...]

GNOME will be very present at FOSDEM 2012. The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium. GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this year, with T-Shirts [...]

Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won Best Desktop Environment and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted Product of the Year award. Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters in 2010, this [...]

GNOME accessibility contributors will be gathering for a four day hackfest in A Coruña, Spain, next week. Together, they will be working to enhance GNOME’s assistive technologies, which allow people with disabilities such as visual, movement, hearing, cognitive and language impairments to use GNOME software. The hackfest will be focusing on two key GNOME accessibility [...]

Today the GNOME Foundation announces a fundraising campaign to kick off 2012 as the Year of Accessibility for GNOME. GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project’s inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became an award winning accessible free desktop environment. “For me, [...]

GROTON, Mass — December 13, 2011 — GUADEC, the primary GNOME User and Developer European Conference (www.guadec.org), will be held in A Coruña, Spain from July 26 to 29, 2012, with hackfests and other meetings to be held on July 30 through August 1. The conference is expected to draw hundreds of attendees from the [...]