Category Archives: gnome
GNOME.Asia Summit 2014
Being back home and having covered the first two days already, a short overall summary: GNOME.Asia 2014 conference in Beijing was very well organized – fast and stable WiFi, free water, venue, hotel and sport facilities all within 5 minutes … Continue reading
RE: Outreach Program for Women
Started writing this posting four weeks ago. Time to publish, seeing the latest blogposts by Philip and Marina on Planet GNOME about the Outreach Program for Women (OPW). First things first (so you can stop reading if you disagree here): … Continue reading
GNOME.Asia Summit 2014: Docs & Bugs
GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 is taking place this weekend in Beijing (China) together with FUDCon APAC. Yesterday (Friday) before the conference started, Kat, Dave and I held a hands-on session about making your first contribution to GNOME documentation (also see Kat’s … Continue reading
Lack of Maintainership & Finding a Project to Contribute to
One of the things I liked about the GNOME Documentation Hackfest (apart from the hospitality of Kat, Dave and the University of East Anglia) was the opportunity of teachers and students popping in and discussing open source project management related … Continue reading
GNOME Documentation Hackfest, Day 0
Reporting live from GNOME Docs Hackfest at Norridge, East Anglia. Fréd arrived after bypassing some tree falling on his way. But he was very late. Shaun is still in a snowstorm. Ryan has escaped that already. But fearless leader Kat, … Continue reading
2014: Plans.
Studying bug management To my disappointment my university seems to have no expertise available to mentor a diploma thesis about best practices and common problems in open source bug management. After ten years of working in this field there are … Continue reading
Shades of Blue
I’m not entirely sure what’s special about my machine (T61 Thinkpad) that makes it lock up and reboot at least once per day without a warning (but sometimes after showing things in blue), but I’ve decided to blame something down … Continue reading
Colors!
Save the money for LSD when you can have gnome-shell with a KMS kernel bug!
Fedora 19.
Two weeks ago I erased the harddisk on my Fedora machine and installed Fedora 19 from scratch. I was tempted to give Mageia a try instead, but as it’s my main machine which I also use for work I tried … Continue reading
Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2012
Marina, Daniel, Muslim and I represented GNOME at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. As a nice coincidence, my colleagues Sumana and Rob also went their representing the Wikimedia Foundation. After attending a session about project management I realized … Continue reading
