Month: January 2012

GNOME will be very present at FOSDEM 2012. The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium.

GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this year, with T-Shirts for sale, stickers and more. GNOME developers will be available to answer questions and will be demonstrating the latest GNOME technologies. GNOME community members will also be attending FOSDEM including Karen Sandler, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, as well as members of the GNOME Release Team.

There are going to be many talks about GNOME, covering topics ranging from new technologies, community organization and design. Most of these talks will be held in the Cross-Desktop Devroom (H 1308). Here are some of them:

Saturday Feb 4 11:20 H.1308 50 minutes	GStreamer 1.0 – the next generation of your favourite multimedia framework	Tim-Philipp Müller
Feb. 4 17:00 H. 1308 30 minutes	GNOME 3: Every Detail Matters	Allan Day
Feb 5 13:30 H. 1308 40 minutes	How to trick a developer into being a designer?	Seif Lotfy & Allan Day
Feb 5 13:30 H.1308 40 minutes	Make your applications smarter via Zeitgeist	Seif Lotfy
Feb 5 09:15 H.1308 40 minutes	GNOME 3.4 accessible: Status, news, future	Alejandro Piiñeiro Iglesias
Feb 5 15:00 H.1308 40 minutes	WebKitGTK+ status and roadmap to WebKit2	Mario Sanchez Prada
Feb 5 15:45 H.1308 30 minutes	Getting into GNOME: Impressions of a new maintainer	David King
Sunday Feb 5 16:20 H.1308 30 minutes	Web Applications in GNOME	Xan López
Sunday Feb 5 10:45 H.1308 30 minutes	Boxes, use other systems with ease	Marc-André Lureau & Zeeshan Ali

 

As usual, there will be a GNOME Beer Party on Saturday night. Held at “La Bécasse” (rue de Tabora 11 (2 minutes from the Grand Place) from 20:00-00:30 in the city center (NOT “La Bécasse” by ULB/FOSDEM!)

If you are a GNOME contributor, let us know if you will be attending FOSDEM at: https://live.gnome.org/Brussels2012/Attendees.

Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won Best Desktop Environment and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted Product of the Year award. Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters in 2010, this is a great honor for GNOME.

Linux Journal reports that “GNOME 3 represents a drastic change in the way we compute on the desktop“, and says the readers have proven “that change isn’t always a bad thing, and GNOME 3 wins!”.