Category Archives: computer

Anything that has to do with machines, internet, open source and technology.

GNOME accepted for Code-In; Tasks needed!

Good news: GNOME has been accepted for Google Code-In that starts on Nov 22nd! Now we need your tasks for students, may they be about Code, Documentation, Outreach, QA, Research, Training, Translation, UI. Please take a moment and think about … Continue reading

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Google Code-In: GNOME needs your tasks!

Some might remember Google’s GHOP contest in 2007/08. It will take place again under the name Google Code-In (GCI) from November 2010 to January 2011. GCI is a “small sibling” of Google Summer of Code for highschool students (13 to … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.32 is out.

It was a hectic day. GNOME 2.32, the last 2.x version, is out now! Big thanks to all the hackers, translators, bugsquadders, documentation writers, artists, marketing folks, …. Personally I’m proud that our small translation team again managed to have … Continue reading

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Jhbuild’ing GNOME 3.0: No fun.

Hadn’t compiled GNOME for a while so I gave it a shot yesterday evening. I ran jhbuild build evolution which should build everything required for Evolution. I had a fresh and empty install directory.I don’t post this to blame anybody … Continue reading

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Three interesting Maemo5 bits

End of Life for Maemo5 hildon-desktop & friends. Being honest and communicating that something is dead: New, and good. On the wishlist for next time: Announce it on the developer mailing list (though that implies interaction with people outside of … Continue reading

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Identifying projects and localization teams in need / GUADEC 2010

The talk (at GUADEC). Apart from the usual Release Team service announcement and its charming follow-up street fights and the two short Bugsquad and Localization reports at the AGM meeting I also had the pleasure to present a talk about … Continue reading

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GNOME 3.0 in March 2011

It’s 3 AM, GUADEC is big fun as usual, I’m in the hotel lobby, and as I have only seen one summary blogpost on planet.gnome.org yet I’d like to mention that GNOME 3.0 will be released in March 2011. Good … Continue reading

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Stallman keynote‽

Having attended last year’s GCDS keynote one sentence in the latest GNOME Foundation board meeting minutes scared me: “GNOME.Asia/COSCUP: Richard Stallman will be doing a keynote”. As I was told that he has received a copy of GNOME’s new Speaker … Continue reading

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Next maemo.org Bugday: Wed, June 30th, 16:00-00:00 UTC

Announcing another maemo.org Bugday: Wednesday, June 30th, 16:00-00:00 UTC in #maemo-bugs on Freenode IRC No specific topic set – take a look at our wiki for some ideas. Bugdays are about hanging out together on IRC, triaging/discussing some reports in … Continue reading

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GNOME modules that do not yet work with GTK3

Quick update of the list of modules (not necessarily complete) that do not yet work with GTK3. Note: The table does not cover porting apps to use both GTK2 and GTK3. Tickets with background color are blocked by missing GTK+ … Continue reading

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