Call for Participation

Call for Participation – Promo Team for endof10.org

We are putting out a call for participation to create a small team to promote End of 10. Supporting the endof10 gives us a unique opportunity to reach disaffected Windows users who are forced to buy a new computer to use the latest Windows 11.

What

This team will work on promoting the End Of 10 Project (and its website) and encourage migration from Windows to GNOME or a sister desktop project. Most important is to grow our user base and grow our app ecosystem.

Who

We are looking for a diverse global team 4-5 people who can help with creating a promotion and coordinating with the KDE and End Of 10 teams.

Why

The promotion will be used to educate the public on re-using their windows 10 computers in new ways by running on a community supported operating system.

How

You can participate by reaching out to us on :gnome.org on Matrix.

If you are interested in End Of 10 but don’t feel you can commit to the Promo Team, you are welcome to join -en:kde.org on Matrix.

FOSDEM 2022 and GNOME Beers

FOSDEM 2022 happens this weekend, Feb 5-6, and we’re excited to be back! During both conference days, we’ll be hosting themed chat times at our virtual stand where attendees can engage directly with GNOME developers, Board of Directors, Foundation Staff, and other community members. All are welcome to join and ask questions or stop by to join the chat. Make sure to take a look at our virtual stand for the full schedule and more fun GNOME links.

Visit the GNOME Stand

 

FOSDEM 2022 may be online, but that won’t stop our GNOME Beers tradition! Join us Saturday, Feb 5 at 18:00 UTC on our Big Blue Button server for a fun informal social.

Please let us know you’re coming by registering on events.gnome.org. We look forward to seeing you there!

Register now

 

Italy welcomes Linux App Summit 2022

We’re happy to announce that Linux App Summit will take place in Rovereto, Italy between the 29th and 30th of April.

Linux App Summit (LAS) is a conference focused on building a Linux application ecosystem. LAS aims to encourage the creation of quality applications, seek opportunities for compensation for FOSS developers, and foster a thriving market for the Linux operating system.

This year LAS will be held as a hybrid event and attendees will be able to join virtually or in person at our venue in Rovereto.

Everyone is invited to attend! Companies, journalists, and individuals who are interested in learning more about the Linux desktop application space and growing their user base are especially welcome.

The call for papers and registration will be open soon. Please check linuxappsummit.org for more updates in the upcoming weeks.

Rovereto Italy

About Rovereto

Rovereto Italy is an old Fortress Town located in the autonomous province of Trento in Northen Italy near the southern edge of the Italian Alps and is the main city of the Vallagarina district.

The city has several interesting sites including:

    • The Ancient War Museum
    • A castle built by the counts of Castelbarco
    • The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento

The biggest businesses of Rovereto include Wine, coffee, Rubber, and Chocolate.  The town was acknowledged as a “Peace town” in the 20th century. Also in the area footprints of dinosaurs have been found.

We hope to see you in Rovereto, Italy.

*The image “Rovereto” by barnyz is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

About the Linux App Summit

The Linux App Summit (LAS) brings the global Linux community together to learn, collaborate, and help grow the Linux application ecosystem. Through talks, panels, and Q&A sessions, we encourage attendees to share ideas, make connections, and join our goal of building a common app ecosystem.

Previous iterations of the Linux App Summit have been held in the United States in Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado, as well as in Barcelona, Spain.

Learn more by visiting linuxappsummit.org.

Registrations for GNOME.Asia Summit 2021 are open!

Registrations for GNOME.Asia Summit 2021 are open!

GNOME.Asia Summit will take place virtually from November 20th – 21st, 2021. It is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia, focusing primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covering applications and platform development tools. The Summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments.

This year’s summit will feature two speaking tracks on both event days as well as two Keynote Speakers.  

Please check out the event website to register for GNOME.Asia Summit 2021! 

GUADEC 2021 – Things you need to know!

GUADEC 2021 is less than a week away! Please make sure to register online for the conference if you have not done so yet.

GUADEC is the GNOME community’s main conference. This year’s event takes place remotely between July 21st-25th and features talks from many community members and contributors covering a range of subjects.

GUADEC 2021 also features two fantastic keynote speakers.
The first, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, programmer and community organizer, will present on July 21 at 20:30 UTC.
The second, Hong Phuc Dang, the founder of FOSSASIA, will present on July 22 at 15:00 UTC.

Don’t forget about the social events! Our GUADEC 2021 schedule is packed with post-conference social activities. You can find all the details online.

No GUADEC would be complete without a new t-shirt. The GUADEC 2021 event shirt is available for purchased on the GNOME Shop.
More information about GUADEC 2021 is available on the official event page.
Hope you enjoy it!
Particpants walking outside of the GUADEC 2018 venue

Welcome Red Hat as a GUADEC Sponsor

Red Hat is a Gold Sponsor of GUADEC 2021! We’re pleased to welcome them back to GUADEC for another year. As a Gold Sponsor, they will be hosting office hours on Wednesday, July 21. This will provide an opportunity for attendees to talk directly with Red Hat, about a range of topics, including the many GNOME-related activities they have going on.

“As one of the many active contributors within the vibrant GNOME community, Red Hat is very pleased to also be among the sponsors of this year’s GUADAC event,” said a representative from Red Hat. “Community is about connections, and as we move into a world that is waking up from decreased social contact, those connections are more important than ever. GNOME remains an incredible part of the open source ecosystem, and the conversations made at GUADEC amongst users and contributors are a big reason why GNOME continues to be successful! We are thrilled to be a part of these conversations and look forward to participating in the GUADEC 2021 online event.”

Kristi Progri, lead organizer of GUADEC, says “On behalf of everyone at GUADEC organizing team, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the generous sponsorship to GUADEC, We’re happy they’re joining us again at GUADEC to help build GNOME and show the community what they are working on.”

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.

About GUADEC

GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters together for a week of talks and workshops. It takes place July 21 – 25 and will be online. This year’s keynote speakers are Hong Phuc Dang and Shauna Gordon-McKeon. Registration for GUADEC 2021 is open, please visit guadec.org to sign up.

About GNOME

GNOME is a free and open-source software environment project supported by a non-profit foundation. Together, the community of contributors and the Foundation create a computing platform and software ecosystem, composed entirely of free software, that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.

The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that believes in a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. We do this by building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem.

Friends of GNOME Update – May 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 Friends of GNOME Update

Cherry blossoms with a grey sky in the background
“Cherry Blossom” by shioshvili is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

LAS

The Linux App Summit took place May 13 – 15. Taking advantage of its virtual nature, the event had a long break in the middle of the proceedings in order to better accommodate attendees across time zones. Congratulations and thanks to the whole LAS team!

GUADEC

The call for GUADEC birds of a feather sessions, lightning talks, and workshops is now open. These will take place July 23 – 24, after the talks.

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are up to two hours. These provide a time for people with shared interests to get together to talk about them. These can be working sessions and/or discussion sessions.

Lightning talks are ten minute talks. If you’re an inexperienced speaker or nervous on a stage, lightning talks are a great opportunity to try out speaking in a more relaxed setting. If you have an idea you want to try out, a narrower topic to explore, or you want to start a conversation, consider giving a lightning talk!

A workshop is a hands on session where people will be learning and working together.

You can submit an idea today!

Community Engagement Challenge Feedback

Did you follow, participate in, or otherwise engage with the CEC? Please give your feedback and fill out this survey!

Seeking University Outreach Ambassadors

The University Outreach program serves two purposes: helping universities adopt GNOME technologies and helping students get involved with GNOME. The GNOME Africa community is currently recruiting for university outreach across Africa. Fill out this form to learn more!

Interns!

We can never adequately express how excited we are about GNOME interns. This year we have two Outreachy interns and 12 Google Summer of Code interns.

Our Outreachy interns are Veena Nagar and Madds H. GSoC interns include Abanoub Ghadban, Maximiliano Sandoval, Manuel Genovés, Kai A. Hiller, Nishal Kulkarni, Alejandro Domínguez, Nishit Patel, zbrown, Ivan Molodetskikh, visvesh subramanian, Arijit Kundu, and Dhanuka Warusadura.

GNOME Gifts

We’ve had a few changes at the GNOME Shop, including a new water bottle.

Misc Updates We Like

Thank you!

Thank you for your support! Whether you’re a Friend of GNOME, contributor, users, or casually interested in our work, we appreciate your time and interest in building a great GNOME community!

Friends of GNOME Update – April 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 Friends of GNOME Update

GNOME 40

At the end of March we released GNOME 40! Some highlights include:

  • new touchpad gestures
  • core apps
  • better wifi settings

You can try it out on GNOME OS Nightly, Fedora, and openSUSE. Check it out online or watch the release video!

GNOME On the Road

We might not be on the road, but Director of Operations Rosanna Yuen recently curated imakefoss. As part of this, she gave her perspective on things like her FOSS origin story and newcomers to the FOSS community. Check it out!

Events with GNOME and Friends

Linux App Summit is coming up. Join us and KDE from May 13 – 15 to learn and grow the Linux app ecosystem. Keynote speakers include GNOME Foundation member and former executive director Karen Sandler and Kathy Giori, who has built her own Linux powered private smart home. The schedule is online and registration is open.

We’ve opened registration for GUADEC 2021. This year’s conference will take place online, using our BigBlueButton installation. You can read the schedule and then register online to attend! Highlights from the schedule include 24 sessions on all sorts of topics, the GNOME Foundation annual members meeting, and keynotes by Hong Phuc Dang and Shauna Gordon-McKeon.

Challenge Winners Announced!

After a number of exciting months, the Community Engagement Challenge wrapped up on April 7 with a showcase of projects and the announcement of the Challenge winner. Congratulations to our winner Big Open Source Sibling and the runner up Open UK Kids Course and Digital Camp.

Part of running the Challenge was building the infrastructure for it, which we now have set up and is ready to go. If you have ideas for future Challenges that match up well with the mission and work of GNOME, please email us!

GNOME.org updates

We recently updated the GNOME web site with a new WordPress instance! Previously, we used a combination of WordPress pages and static pages, but the new site is all on WordPress. The project was started by Britt Yazel, and happened with the help of Evan Welsh and Claudio Wunder.

Summer Internships

This summer we are participating in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Mentors have been working with potential interns on their applications and first contributions to GNOME. Accepted interns will be announced in the upcoming weeks.

Technical Updates

Emmanuele Bassi, Core GTK Developer, works on a tool called gi-docgen, which generates API references from introspection data. He’s made some updates and documented them. Additionally, there have been a lot of updates to the GTK documentation.

Emmanuele is also working on fixing issues in the GTK4 accessibility infrastructure. He is replacing the shared accessibility bus with a peer-to-peer connection between GTK4 applications and assistive technologies.

Thank you!

Thank you for your support! Whether you’re a Friend of GNOME, contributor, users, or casually interested in our work, we appreciate your time and interest in building a great GNOME community!

GUADEC 2021 Keynotes and Updates

GUADEC is taking place this July!

A GNOME banner hung on a tower, with several people behind it.
“GUADEC 2010” by Francisco Rojas is licensed under CC BY 2.0

The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that GUADEC 2021 will take place July 21 -25. This year’s conference will be held online and last five days. The first two days of the conference, July 21 – 22, will be dedicated to presentations. The 23 – 24 will be Birds of a Feather sessions and workshops, and the last day will be for social activities.

Call for Papers 

The GUADEC 2021 theme is “Future-Proofing FOSS”. GNOME is always anticipating the future and looking to innovate and build better for whatever the future may hold, whether it’s with events, technologies, or ways to empower users and integrate free and open source software into our lives. We are interested in proposals that align with this theme as well as ones relating to free and open source software, technology, and community building. In the past, we’ve had talks on:

  • Application development
  • Privacy and security
  • Community and team building
  • Design of user and developer experience
  • Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
  • Newcomers initiatives
  • Project planning and governance

Proposals are due March 22, so submit one today!

Keynote Speakers

A photo of a person with long hair and a pink shirt.
Photo courtesy of Mario Behling. License: CC BY

Our amazing keynote speakers for this year are Hong Phuc Dang and Shauna Gordon-McKeon. 

Hong Phuc Dang chairs the annual FOSSASIA Summit and organizes Open Tech Summits in countries from Vietnam, India, China, and Sri Lanka, to Germany. She is the board member of the Open Source Business Alliance Europe and also serves as Vice President of the Open Source Initiative.

 

A person with long hair and a purple/blue shirt.
Photo courtesy of Shauna Gordon-McKeon. License: CC-BY-SA

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, programmer and community organizer who focuses on the intersection of technology and governance. She co-organizes the Washington DC chapter of the Tech Workers Coalition. She serves on the board of Tech Inquiry and is an advisor to Metagov.

Office Hours for GUADEC Call for Proposals

A person in a black, pink, and white flannel behind a speaker podium with a sign that says "GUADEC."
“Guadec Dia 3” by Ana _Rey is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

What: GUADEC CfP Office Hours

When: March 11 (14:00 UTC) and March 18 (23:00 UTC)

Where: GUADEC channel on Rocket.chat

The GUADEC 2021 Call for Proposals is open! We’ve scheduled CfP office hours for Thursday March 11 (14:00 UTC) and Thursday March 18 (23:00 UTC).

If you’re interested in presenting at GUADEC and want to talk with organizers and experienced speakers about your ideas, have someone look over your session proposal, or just want to ask some questions about speaking at a conference, come by Office Hours to discuss all of these and more!

Join us in the GUADEC channel on Rocket.chat in the upcoming weeks to work on your CfP responses! Hope to see you there.