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  • April 4, 2012 Official Announcement and Invitation to GNOME.Asia 2012

    GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s primier GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. This year’s conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will […]

  • New GNOME Foundation Members for March

    Last month, GNOME Foundation have had more members to join its warm family. We are happy to announce that the new members are as follows: Dan Vrátil (Evolution’s porting to WebKit, Bugzilla contributions) Stefano Candori (GNOME Activity Journal maintainer and Zeitgeist Andres Gomez (Organized GUADEC in the past, sponsors GNOME through Igalia (co-owner), coded various […]

  • Software Freedom Conservancy Joins GNOME Outreach Program

    The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to welcome the Software Freedom Conservancy to its 2012 Outreach Program for Women. The Outreach Program for Women seeks to engage women in the development, documentation and general improvement of open source and free software. Concurrently with the Google Summer of Code, the Outreach Program for Women additionally funds internships […]

  • April 1, 2012 Quarterly Report Q1, 2012

    Board and Executive Director By: Karen Sandler The first quarter of 2012 was another busy one for GNOME. We released GNOME 3.4, completed a round of our Outreach Program for Women, were accepted as an organization to GSoC (with a lot more applicants than in the past two years), had many new members join the […]

  • March 28, 2012 GNOME 3.4 Released

    The GNOME Release Team has announced the availability of GNOME 3.4. This latest version comes six months after the last GNOME release and includes major new features, significant updates to a host of GNOME applications, and a huge number smaller fixes and refinements. Matthias Clasen, who oversaw the completion of the release, described it as […]

  • GNOME 3.4 Released: a Big Leap Forward

    Groton, MA, March 28 2012: The GNOME project is happy to announce the release of GNOME 3.4, the second update to GNOME 3.0, originally released in April 2011. This new version of GNOME 3 combines six months of development effort, resulting in major new features, updated applications, and a raft of subtle refinements. GNOME 3 […]

  • March 25, 2012 GNOME 3.4 Release Candidate Finalized

    The GNOME Release Team’s Javier Jardón announced the availability of the 3.4 Release Candidate yesterday. This is the final development version of GNOME 3.4, and puts the next version of GNOME 3 on track for completion next week. GNOME 3.4 promises to deliver major new features, updated applications and wide-scale improvements to the GNOME 3 […]

  • March 21, 2012 GNOME to Participate in Google Summer of Code 2012

    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 […]

  • Quarterly Report Q4, 2011

    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 […]

  • March 14, 2012 The GNOME Foundation Continues to Grow

    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 […]