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Promote the Friends of GNOME program!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Thanks to the nice work the marketing team has been doing, we now have a bunch of cool badges to promote the Friends of GNOME program! I’ve already added a badge to my blog – and Stormy, Glynn, Behdad, Jonh, Paul, Jaap, Andreas, and many others too. What are you waiting for? Go to our Friends of GNOME promotion page and add one of our badges to your website! Besides that, any help on spreading the word about the program is more than welcome!

We’ll be probably posting something about the program status soon.

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The GNOME Journal, May Edition

Friday, May 1st, 2009

The GNOME Journal is back! A brand new issue has just been published! It features an interview with Stormy Peters, the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation by Jayson Rowe, a review of the Gourmet Recipe Manager application by Sriram Ramkrishna, a look at the GConf Configuation System for developers by Natan Yellin, an Introduction to the Message Indicator for developers by Ken VanDine, and a letter from our editor, Jim Hodapp.

Special thanks goes to Paul Cutler who coordinated the release of this edition!

Read now: http://www.gnomejournal.org

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Two Point Twenty Six!

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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New Friends of GNOME

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

We have just released the new Friends of GNOME website! It’s not only a new website, we now have:

Much more clear presentation of the program which we hope will help us on getting more donors;
“Adopt a Hacker” option, which allows you to subscribe for a monthly $10 donation;
New gifts for donors: mugs, t-shirts, postcards, stickers, etc;

Big thanks to:

Stormy, who’s responsible for the whole new presentation of the program;
Zana, who’s the program admin, handling the relationship with donors and all the daily tasks surrounding Friends of GNOME;
Andreas and Kalle, for the new website design;
Owen, for the help on setting up the new website in the GNOME servers;
GNOME marketing folks, who helped us with feedback and ideas;
Everyone else who made this happen!

If you have any issues, suggestions, ideas about the new website, email us (fundraising at gnome.org).

So, what are you waiting for!? Go and Adopt a Hacker today!

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GNOME Annual Report 2008 Kickoff

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

It’s time to start working on our 2008 annual report (actually, we’re already late…)! Last year we had a very nice report. So, let’s make it even better this year! I’ve created a wiki page to organize the work. The current content is just an initial proposal. Feel free to add your ideas there.

Any kind of contribution is welcome! There are several ways to help:

Assign yourself to write one of the sections
Add links, references and other information sources to help writers to produce the content
Add new ideas, suggest, review the content
Add links to high resolution photos of GNOME people
Anything else! :-)

I’ll soon start to directly contact some people for specific tasks (as this is a more effective way of getting volunteers). Anyway, if you want to help and/or have any questions, feel free to contact me.

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“Geejays”

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

So, as Havoc had already pre-announced, we just released the 0.1 version of Gjs, the javascript bindings with which we’re doing all the crazy stuff at LiTL. The code is in GNOME svn. We’ve created this really dummie wiki page now. Feel free to test it and send us cool patches to improve it.

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In Boston

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

So, I just arrived in Boston. When I got to the hotel, my room was not ready yet so I had to randomly walk around the city for about 1 hour. I was quite tired but it was a nice walk after all. I found this nice bookstore where I bought two books I was looking for with very good prices: the biographies of Coltrane (by Ratliff) and Davis (by Davis). I’m reading now the biography of Jimi Hendrix (by Cross). Cool stuff.

Anyway, if you’re around and want to have dinner/a beer this week, just let me know.

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GNOME 3.0

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

GNOME 3.0

So, just after the Kris‘ keynote presenting the GTK+ 3.0 plans, we, your beloved release team, quickly presented our proposed plan for GNOME 3.0. There are still lots of details to discuss but the important thing is that our proposed mindset for 3.0 is in place for discussion now. It involves a relatively smooth transition from 2.x to 3.x, a more focused and inclusive development process, long-term development cycles, and more. We hope to get some fruitful discussions during GUADEC and to present the plan in a more structured and detailed way to everyone soon.

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More and more GUADEC

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

So, here are my quick comment for the day:

Luis opening talk: quick and nice.
Release team meeting: we prepared some interesting slides.
Board meeting about where the next GUADEC will take place.
Had time to attend two talks: Clutter and Leisa Reichelt. Both pretty cool.
Spent the rest of afternoon working on the organization of the Drooling Macaque “concert” and jam session.
At night, “concert” and jam session: I think it was really fun! Thanks to everyone who participated by being part of the band or by just being a nice audience!
Tomorrow: maybe more small meetings, some talks to see, and boat party at night!

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More GUADEC

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

More quick comments:

Saw half of two talks by Vincent about release notes and translation web tools and process. Cool stuff, as usual.
Spent most of the day on the advisory board meeting (which was a much better because of Stormy’s coordination).
Unfortunately, because of the advisory board meeting, I couldn’t play soccer. Maybe next year?
Went for dinner with a bunch GNOME people.
After dinner, long conversation with Vincent about several GNOME topics (future of the project, board, new contributors, current situation, etc).
Tomorrow: one more release team meeting, one more board meeting, maybe will see some talks, and jam session at GUADEC’s opening cocktail (you can’t miss this!).

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