Month: May 2011

The GNOME.Asia Committee is inviting proposals to host GNOME.Asia Summit during the 1st quarter of 2012. GNOME.Asia Summit is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers Conference in Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, and also covers applications and the development platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss both the present technology and future developments.

GNOME.Asia Summit was held in Beijing, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Taipei and Bangalore respectively over the last four years. We would like to continue finding new locations as we spread GNOME throughout Asia, and we are looking for local organizers to rise to the challenge of organizing an excellent GNOME event. The GNOME.Asia committee will assist in the process, but there is a definitive need for individuals to be actively involved and committed to the planning and delivery of the event.

You can learn more about GNOME.Asia Summit at our official website: http://www.gnome.asia

For those of you who would like to host the next GNOME.Asia Summit in 2012 you are hereby invited to write a formal proposal to the gnome-asia-committee-list (at) gnome (dot) org . The deadline for the proposals is July 4, 2011 Monday UTC 2359. Please send your proposal to gnome-asia-committee-list (at) gnome (dot) org. We might invite you to present your proposal in more details over our regular IRC meetings, or send you additional questions and requests. Results will be announced by the end of July 2011.

The conference will require availability of facilities for one week, including a weekend, during the 1st quarter of 2012 (January to March 2012). Dates should avoid other key free software conferences or other events that may have conflict and will be confirmed together with other GNOME teams which might get involved.

Key points which proposals should consider, and which will be taken into account when deciding among candidates, are:

• Local community support for hosting the conference.
• Venue details. Information about infrastructure and facilities to hold the conference should be provided.
• Information about how internet connectivity will be managed.
• Lodging choices ranging from affordable housing to nicer hotels, and information about distances between the venue and lodging options.
• The availability of restaurants or the organization of catering on-site, cost of food/soft drinks/beer.
• The availability and cost of travel from major Asian and European cities.
• Local industry and government support.
• Please provide a reasonably detailed budget.
• Bear in mind that at GNOME.Asia Summit, the hallway track and social activities are also very important.

Please check the GNOME.Asia Summit check list [1] and howtos [2] when putting together a proposal. Please also feel free to contact gnome-asia-committee-list (at) gnome (dot) org if you have any questions.

Please help to spread the words and we are looking forward to hearing from you soon!

GNOME.Asia Committee

[1] http://www.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/event-organization-checklist
[2] http://www.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/summit-planning-howto

Over 140 parties were organized all over the world to celebrate the release of GNOME 3.0. To help capture the moment, we invited people to take photographs of their parties and a competition was held for the best images. The GNOME project received lots of great party photographs, and the competition judges have been hard at work sorting through the entries. They have now come to a decision, however, and can announce the competition winner as well as four runners up. Each will receive GNOME goodies as prizes.

Winner

Runners up

Congratulations, everyone! We will be in touch to organize delivery of your prizes shortly.

Many thanks to everyone who sent us photographs. An online gallery containing many more images will be launched soon.

All the entries are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (CC BY 3.0).

GNOME’s Membership and Elections Committee has announced 2011’s Foundation elections. Members of the GNOME Foundation will have the opportunity to propose themselves for the Board of Directors and to vote on their preferred candidates.

The GNOME Foundation’s Board of Directors has seven positions; its members work to ensure the effective running of the Foundation and represent GNOME in its dealings with partner organizations. Their election is an annual event.

GNOME Foundation members have until May 22nd to propose their candidacy for election. Voting will take place between May 29th and June 12th.

The GNOME Foundation membership is made up of contributors to the GNOME Project. If you have made a contribution and have not yet applied for membership, you are encouraged to do so. The Foundation’s membership page contains more details.