Category Archives: gnome

The first two days of the GNOME Documentation hackfest in Brno (CZ) are over. After I picked up a bunch of jetlagged folks at Prague airport to trick them to Brno, we kicked off at the Masaryk University by having … Continue reading →

Today Google Code-In 2011 ended. Out of the 136 tasks that the GNOME community provided, 124 were successfully resolved by highschool students. Achievements include code improvements in cheese, gnome-games, vino and other modules, improved or new documentation for Python and … Continue reading →

Google Code-In has been running for nearly three weeks and 57 tasks have been completed so far by highschool students. Only 27 tasks have not been completed yet. Some examples of completed tasks: A boost for Greek, Indonesian, Romanian and … Continue reading →

This Monday Google Code-In 2011 starts. Google Code-in is a contest for pre-university students (13 to 17 years old) to get involved in free and open source software. GNOME (and 17 other organizations) are proud to participate by providing a … Continue reading →

The summit Last weekend Marina and me represented GNOME at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit in sunny California. It was my first time attending a Mentor Summit and I was surprised about the wide range of topics at … Continue reading →

Just dropping some recent activity here. Olav, Allan and I wrote the GNOME 3.2 release notes. They are available for translation and will soon be available to public. Sent two GNOME 3.2 blocker bug reports and asked for committing reviewed … Continue reading →

At the first Desktop Summit in 2009 KDE’s aKademy and GNOME’s GUADEC conferences were just co-located. I cannot remember having had any interaction with non-GNOME folks (but I wasn’t around for the complete conference). In 2011 it wasn’t just co-located … Continue reading →

As Tiffany already mentioned in her blog post, Pedro and me hosted a Bugsquad BoF at Desktop Summit. There were not too many folks around (mostly the people from the previous session stayed in the room) but nevertheless it was … Continue reading →

(Copyright: Dženan Šehić; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) I’m late with commenting Desktop Summit in Berlin as I spent the last week offline in France and fifteen minutes of it at the mayor’s (La mairie) to afterwards celebrate the wedding of an … Continue reading →

I’m in Berlin for a conference. And I am sleepy, so this will be short. I write this every time I am at a conference, but still: I’m thankful to meet many friends in our community again, plus great new … Continue reading →