Category Archives: lang-en

Entries in English language.

GNOME.Asia summit, Hongkong

Today I arrived in Hong Kong (PRC) to attend this year’s edition of GNOME.Asia summit at the City University of Hong Kong. It takes place on Saturday and Sunday and you can should check out the schedule in case that … Continue reading

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Wikimedia Hackathon, Berlin.

I’m in sunny and windy Berlin (Germany) again this weekend to attend Wikimedia’s “Hackathon” (Wikimedia is the organization behind Wikipedia and some other projects and websites, in case you didn’t know). I’d like to thank Wikimedia Foundation for the invitation. … Continue reading

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Publishing and writing text

It’s old news and Henri and others already covered it but I would also like to recommend this nice lecture: Lydia Pintscher published Open Device – FOSS: What we wish we had known when we started at this year’s FOSDEM … Continue reading

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Random recent photos.

GNOME Documentation hackfest team and venue in Brno: Same folks wondering how to use the “Documents” application: KDE 4.8 Prague Release Party Cake. Congrats to the KDE team: One installation of the “Middle East Europe” exhibition at DOX:

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The Book of Right-On

A quick and dirty blog post to keep the world out there in the loop about what is done by a dozen of people in a big meeting room with a view over Brno, right next to a small meeting … Continue reading

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GNOME Documentation hackfest

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

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Google Code-In 2011: Thanks!

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

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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

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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

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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

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