August 2016 – It's All About Freedom

Do you want to test GNOME Photos?

If you are interested in testing the latest version of GNOME Photos, now it will be easier than before!

Recently we made Photos available as a Flatpak application. This means that you can now run the latest, unstable version and help us to find regressions or general bugs. At this time to install the application you still need to use the command line.

See here for installing the Flatpak package, after that you just need follow the few steps described below.

Add the nightly platform and application repositories:

wget https://sdk.gnome.org/nightly/keys/nightly.gpg
flatpak remote-add --gpg-import=nightly.gpg gnome-nightly https://sdk.gnome.org/nightly/repo/
flatpak remote-add --gpg-import=nightly.gpg gnome-nightly-apps https://sdk.gnome.org/nightly/repo-apps/

Install the nightly GNOME platform:

flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gnome.Platform master

Install the nightly GNOME Photos:

flatpak install gnome-nightly-apps org.gnome.Photos master

And when you want to update, just run:

flatpak update

Bug reports are appreciated! You can report them here (a registration is needed).

GUADEC: what a week!

So, another GUADEC is over. As I said in the previous post, this was my second time at the event. This time I’ve tried to be more involved: I applied for the volunteer team by helping with the catering which gave me the opportunity to meet the organizers (by the way, they are amazing!). Volunteering is a great experience, you have the opportunity to see some parts of the hard work that is behind the scene in a conference like GUADEC. I would recommend it to everyone!

Volunteering didn’t take away the time to attend to the talks that I was interested in. Just for mention a few:

If you want to see all the talks you can find them here or here, You should thank the CCC Video Operation Center for them!

But GUADEC isn’t all about talks, there were a lot of chatting, programming and being together. For each evening of the conference there were programmed events: a nice picnic with games, a pub night and a dinner.

Personally, I really enjoyed this GUADEC. It was really well organized and like the previous one, meeting the people you talk to for a year without seeing them helps a lot to discuss about the project. So I would like to thank again the GNOME Foundation for sponsoring me.

Next GUADEC will be in Manchester! So if you missed this, be prepared for the next! And if you are unsure about it, don’t be shy come to GUADEC: it’s full of lovely people.

Getting ready for GUADEC!

I’m going to GUADEC! This will be the second time and I’m pretty exited about it.

I have almost everything ready for my trip and I would like to thank the GNOME Foundation and the travel committee for sponsoring it.

I have already attended at GUADEC 2015 and it was a great, motivating experience with nice people having the same interest as mine.

This year will be a new opportunity to meet people, learning and discussing about GNOME-related stuff!

See you there!