Category Archives: computer
Maemo, MeeGo, Mer, Tizen: Short statūs
While the official Maemo platform (led by Nokia) is not actively developed anymore, some 3rd party Extras and the Maemo Community Updates project (which welcomes helping hands) are quite alive. MeeGo never managed to fulfil its own expectations with regard … Continue reading
Google Code-In 2011: Second (and last) round coming!
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
Google Code-In is starting: Take part!
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
MozCamp Europe 2011
Last weekend I attended MozCamp Europe in Berlin. I was mostly interested in discussing and learning about QA, Support/Documentation and Localization. Most interesting talk for me was Robert Kaiser’s “Crash Investigation 101” covering the infrastructure behind crash-stats.mozilla.org, interaction with Mozilla’s … Continue reading
Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011
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
On the way to GNOME 3.2
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
Desktop Summit: Collaboration?
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
Desktop Summit: Bugsquad BoF
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
Desktop Summit: A GUADEC bid story
(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
Berlin City, Baby!
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
