April 2012 – GNOME Foundation

Official Announcement and Invitation to GNOME.Asia 2012

GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s primier GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia.

This year’s conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 and help make GNOME as successful as possible.

To learn more or submit a paper, see the official GNOME.Asia 2012 website.

New GNOME Foundation Members for March

Last month, GNOME Foundation have had more members to join its warm family. We are happy to announce that the new members are as follows:

Dan Vrátil (Evolution’s porting to WebKit, Bugzilla contributions)
Stefano Candori (GNOME Activity Journal maintainer and Zeitgeist
Andres Gomez (Organized GUADEC in the past, sponsors GNOME through Igalia (co-owner), coded various GNOME Mobile apps)
Robert Nordan (Tomboy, Pinta)
Antigoni Papantoni (PiTiVi, participated in GStreamer hackfest, OPW
Javier Hernández Antúnez (Developer and member of the GNOME a11y Team, Accerciser co-maintainer, Contributor to the openSuse GNOME 3.2 live images)
Yuri Myasoedov (Coordinator of the Russian translation team, also maintain the GNOME russian website, gnome.org.ru)
Tim Waugh (CUPS printing system, GNOME Control Center and Gtk+ printing framework)
Chris Lord (Contributions to some GNOME projects, as Clutter, Pinpoint, grilo, libsoup, gtkhtml2, libjana, contacts, dates)
Susanna Huhtanen (GNOME’s OPW internship, GNOME Documentation)

They have all contributed significantly to the development of GNOME. Thank you all for your great help and welcome! You join our other amazing Foundation Members

If you contribute to GNOME, you too can become a member of the Foundation. See the membership page for details.

Software Freedom Conservancy Joins GNOME Outreach Program

The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to welcome the Software Freedom Conservancy to its 2012 Outreach Program for Women. The Outreach Program for Women seeks to engage women in the development, documentation and general improvement of open source and free software. Concurrently with the Google Summer of Code, the Outreach Program for Women additionally funds internships for women to spend the summer participating in and contributing to free software projects while being mentored by an experienced member of the free software community.

The deadline for applications to both the Outreach Program for Women internships and Google’s Summer of Code is April 6th. GNOME has made available a list of Google Summer of Code project ideas that are suitable for either this outreach program or Summer of Code. Conservancy’s internship is with the Twisted project, which has also made available full details and application requirements on the internship on its wiki. The Conservancy’s internship will follow the internship rules outlined by the GNOME Foundation’s Outreach Program for
Women.

Conservancy and the GNOME Foundation urge women who aspire to get involved with free software projects this summer to act fast! The deadline for applications for all these programs is just days away!