Welcome to the July 2019 Friends of GNOME Update!

New Board of Directors

Members of the GNOME Foundation voted in the annual elections for this year’s board of directors. The current board consists of:

• • Allan Day
  • Carlos Soriano
  • Federico Mena Quintero
  • Robert McQueen
  • Philip Chimento
  • Britt Yazel
  • Tristan Van Berkom

Congratulation to the new board! You can learn more about the board and what it does online.

Where are we going?

OSCON takes place in Portland, OR, USA July 17 – 18th, and we’ll be there! Feel free to stop by the booth and come and say hello. There is also a hackfest July 18 – 21st, also in Portland, OR. The Engagement team, the Documentation team, and the GTK team are all currently scheduled to participate.

Programs coordinator Kristi Progri will be at DebConf 19 in Curitiba, Brazil later this month as well.

Of course, we’ll be at GUADEC, August 23 – 28th in Thessaloniki, Greece! Registration is now open. We hope to see you there!

What we’ve been up to

GTK development

We’re moving forward with exciting new things for GTK, including completing the consistent layout manager for GTK 4. We’re working on an API to make creating custom layouts easier. Focusing on usability across machines, we’ve put a significant amount of work into memory usage, to help things run more smoothly on small and low-powered devices.

We’re using GNOME!

Flatpak.org was running on Google Analytics, but that is no more! We are now using GNOME Matomo.

Inclusion, Diversity, and GNOME

GNOME is launching a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiative to help the community become even better. They are working on revamping some web pages, working on the wiki, and putting together some special workshops and events to help people find their places within the community.

Check out the Annual Report!

Thanks to contributors, the board, and staff, we have a beautiful annual report that highlights what happened during the 2018 fiscal year. You can read it online.

## Meet the GNOMEies

This month we highlighted Sriram Ramkrishna. known around free and open source software communities as Sri.

Thank you!

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Who’s new at the GNOME Foundation?

Over the past few months, we’ve been building up the Foundation‘s staff. In addition to executive director Neil McGovern and director of operations Rosanna Yuen, we‘re thrilled to welcome:

• Emmanuele Bassi, GTK+ core developer
• Molly de Blanc, Strategic initiatives manager
• Bartłomiej Piotrowski, Devops/sysadmin
• Kristi Progri, Programs coordinator
• Andrea Veri, Systems administrator

The election for the 2019-2020 board of directors is going on right now!

Where have we been?

In April we visited FOSS North in Gothenburg, Sweden and Linux Fest Northwest in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Our table at FOSS North was staffed by Kristi and Neil, and volunteers Bastian, Anisa and Stefano. GNOMEie Zeeshan Ali presented on open source geolocation. Molly and Sri were at LFNW, where Molly spoke about following through on a code of conduct. Kristi participated remotely in FLISOL. There were two hackfests in May, Rust+GNOME 2019 Hackfest#5 in Berlin and Gstreamer Spring Hackfest 2019 in Oslo. We’ll be in Portland, OR, USA in July for OSCON. After OSCON we‘ll be hosting a West Coast Hackfest, July 18th – 21st.

Exciting Goings-on

• We are participating in Google Summer of Code! You can learn more about our ten interns on the GSoC web site.
• Emmanuele finished moving the GTK+ development mailing list to Discourse. He also increased the reliability and usibility of CI for Glib and GTK. You can read about it on his blog.
• Kristi has been busy working with community members around the world on organizing GUADEC.
• What to know more about what‘s going on with the GNOME community? Check out planet.gnome.org.

Meet the GNOMEies!

The GNOME project is what it is because of the GNOME community. This month, we’ll be introducing you to Matthias Clasen!

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