Category Archives: computer

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

maemo.org Bugzilla: One year later.

It’s the beginning of October and one year ago I started working fulltime as maemo.org Bugmaster (after I had started together with Karsten in May 2008).Where are we and what are the plans? Stats On 29 Sep 2008 there were … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.28 released!

Just came back from the wonderful Vypsaná fixa album release party to see that there is yet another great GNOME major release available. Go check out the improvements and changes! Made to share! Work on GNOME 3 is ongoing, of … Continue reading

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“Die Debatte über das Internet muss raus aus dem digitalen Ghetto.”

Auch das Internet ist kein Thema im deutschen Bundestagswahlkampf.Dazu gib es lesenswerte Beiträge im Tagesspiegel und in der FAZ.

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maemo.org: Welcome new users.

The Nokia N900 is more targeted to the mass market than any of the Nokia Internet Tablets before. This means that Maemo will see new users, with different levels of knowledge, and involvement.Some will just use their device and will … Continue reading

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The N900 & Maemo 5

It’s announced. And I’m proud to be part of it. See it in action.

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Wishlist: Evolution Instant Messaging integration

Apart from the missing code required to sync evolution-data-server’s contacts with Empathy (Nat once wrote an Evolution plugin for Pidgin but nowadays Empathy and the Telepathy stack are official part of the GNOME platform) I’ve spent an evening a few … Continue reading

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GNOME 3 update + Module proposals welcome now!

Propose your module for GNOME now Module proposal period for the next GNOME release has started! If you are a maintainer of a module that you want to propose for official inclusion in GNOME: Do it now! See the wiki … Continue reading

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GNOME Bugsquad policy changes

One week ago the GNOME Bugsquad had an IRC meeting initiated by Javier Jardón. The log can be found here. To summarize the important decisions: Bug reports in GNOME Bugzilla (not: enhancement requests) with 1 year without any activity will … Continue reading

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GNOME 3 cleanup status update

This is another (shortened) update about cleaning up the GNOME stack for GNOME 3. This has also been posted to the desktop-devel mailing list. This status report refers to the aims listed in the 2.27/2.29 schedule and the automatic statistics … Continue reading

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GNOME Bugsquad meeting

The ever-active Javier Jardón initiated an IRC Bugsquad meeting on Monday 3rd of August, 18:00 UTC in #bugs on GIMPnet Click here for the agenda plus feel free to add any ideas that might be worth discussion with regard to … Continue reading

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