Category Archives: lang-en
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
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
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
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
Music.
Probably everybody who is interested in music has this list of bands in mind that s/he could never see in concert because they had split up too early. In my case these have been Refused and Atari Teenage Riot. After … Continue reading
Rain.
It was raining outside, and suddenly also inside. That’s nothing new – normally I can blame my windows for that. But this time the reason was platform-independent: It’s one of the (unused) network cables.
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
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
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
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
