Our next interview comes from  Serafín “riptide” Villar, who is a member of the local GUADEC organizing team. Where do you live and/or work? Now I’m living in Cambre (a town near A Coruña) and work throughout Galicia. What do you like to do in your free time? Any kind of stuff with computers, play […]

Our next interview comes from one of the new members of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Tobias Mueller. Where do you live/work? I live in Hamburg, in the lovely north of Germany. Why is open source/free software important to you? I believe that Free Software makes the world a better place. Also, as I […]

Our second interview comes from another member of the local organizing team Alejo Pacín: Q: Where do you live and/or work? Alejo: I live in the best place in the world! Taboada, a small rural municipality in the province of Lugo (about 140 km from A Coruña). Some pictures. Q: What do you like to […]

With GUADEC 2012 starting in just two weeks, GNOME News is starting a series of interviews with members of the local organizing team. Our first interview is from one of the members of the local team, Laura M. Castro. Where do you live and/or work? I live and work in A Coruña. What do you […]

The full program for this year’s GUADEC conference has been announced. GUADEC is the premier GNOME conference, and is being held in a Coruña, Spain, from July 26th to August 1st. A total of 46 talks will be held during the core conference days, as well as 4 keynotes and a number of lightning talk […]

The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC 2013. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME users and developers and includes a three-day conference, the annual general meeting of the members of the GNOME Foundation, and a week of coding, meeting, and discussion. Those who would like to host the next GUADEC are hereby invited […]

The GNOME Foundation Membership and the GNOME Elections Committee this week announced the final results for GNOME’s 2012-2013 Board of Directors. The winners are: Emmanuele Bassi Joanmarie Diggs Seif Lotfy Shaun McCance Tobias Mueller Andreas Nilsson Bastien Nocera The new Board will begin officially in their leadership roles next month. Karen Sandler, the GNOME Foundation’s […]

We’re closing in on our goal of $20,000 for our accessibility campaign. If you haven’t already, take a look at the testimonial by Diego Sánchez that we’ve been lucky to include. As Diego says, GNOME 3 has really helped him: “I’m happy because I can now use the computer in my classroom without any assistance.” […]

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce its latest round of the Outreach Program for Women Internships, for which it has been able to accept ten outstanding applicants. GNOME’s efforts are made possible by the strong sponsorship that the program has received from free software companies and organizations committed to increasing the involvement of women […]

The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce that 29 students have been accepted to work on GNOME through Google Summer of Code this year. The students will work on a wide range of projects improving the core GNOME 3 experience, GNOME technologies, and popular applications. Some applications that the students will work on are Documents, […]