The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the conclusion of the WebKitGTK+Hackfest this week in A Coruña, Spain. The hackfest was held from November 29 to December 5 and was hosted by Igalia at its offices. There were attendees from Red Hat, Motorola, Collabora and Igalia. The hackfest was extremely productive, and highlights of the [...]

A new GNOME initiative called Every Detail Matters was announced today. It aims to help to take GNOME’s software to the next level by coordinating work to make it more polished and refined. A key part of the initiative will be the identification of small details that could be improved. Every Detail Matters will also [...]

GNOME is participating in the Google Code-In 2011 (GCI), which takes place from November 21, 2011 – January 16, 2012. Google Code-In gives pre-university students aged 13-17 the opportunity to participate in a variety of FOSS projects. The last GCI included 361 students from 48 countries who completed over 2000 tasks. Andre Klapper, who is [...]

Board and Executive Director by: Karen Sandler This quarter was a time of change for GNOME’s Board of Directors, with a new Board of Directors taking charge of the foundation. The new Board is: Emmanuele Bassi, Brian Cameron, Ryan Lortie, Shaun McCance, Bastien Nocera, Stormy Peters and Germán Póo-Caamaño. It’s also time to give a [...]

Groton, MA, November 16 2011: In each of the previous six years, at most one female student participated in Google Summer of Code in GNOME. This year, there were seven. The GNOME Outreach Program for Women attracted these applicants and connected them with mentors, who helped them with their first contribution. While creating and landing [...]

The Montreal Summit turned out to be a very fun and productive gathering last week. With the 3.2 release behind us, much of the discussions were at a pretty high level, and there was a lot of discussion about the state of GNOME and its path going forward. This was reflected in both the technical [...]

Groton, MA, September 28 2011: Today, the GNOME Desktop project released GNOME 3.2, the first follow-up release to its ground-breaking GNOME 3.0. With GNOME 3, GNOME undertook a major redesign and reimagined the user interface for the next generation of the desktop. From 3.2, GNOME is refining the project and starting to introduce new, modern [...]

As part of the Outreach Program for Women in GNOME, the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring at least three internships for women from December 12, 2011 to March 12, 2012. The application deadline is October 31, 2011. These internship dates are aimed at the college women in the Southern Hemisphere who will have a school summer [...]

A big “Thank You!” to all the sponsors, Technologiestiftung Berlin (TSB; in English, Technology Foundation of Berlin), Humboldt University of Berlin, and nearly 800 attendees who gathered from around the world to make a successful Desktop Summit 2011! Attendees gathered in Berlin to review progress, share ideas and work together on various free software projects [...]

For the second and third full days at the Desktop Summit, the organizers played a little trick on us by starting talks at 9:00 a.m. Those who were awake enough after the dinners and chat of the previous night were treated to talks on Calligra (the KDE creativity and productivity suite), suggestions about blending the [...]