October 2015 – GNOME Foundation

GUADEC 2016 to take place in Karlsruhe, Germany

It is with pleasure that the GNOME Foundation is announcing that Karlsruhe, Germany, will host GUADEC in the summer of 2016.

Karlsruhe is situated in the Southern part of Germany and is Germany’s sunniest city. It is easy to get to as it is a short trip from both Frankfurt international airport and Stuttgart airport. Karlsruhe combines a strong sense for science and technology with a penchant for creativity and design. The city hosts four higher education institutions that offer computer science related degrees, so an emphasis will be made to reach out to the local student population.

The GNOME User and Developer European Conference brings together hundreds of users and developers every year to further GNOME. We expect GUADEC 2016 to take place around July-August.

[Image by Meph666 via Wikimedia commons, licensed GFDL + CC-BY-SA-2.5]

*dates will be finalized in the coming months.

GNOME.Asia Summit 2016 to be held in Delhi, India

India Gate

The GNOME Asia team is pleased to announce that next year’s GNOME.Asia Summit will be held in Delhi, at the Manav Rachna International University (MRIU). This is located in the Faridabad distract just south of the National Capital Territory (New Delhi).

GNOME.Asia 2016 will be held between the 21st and 24th of April, and will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements in GNOME.

“We’re excited to bring GNOME.Asia Summit 2016 Summit to India, a country with a vast, diverse culture well as a growing IT-sector and a thriving Free Software Community.” – Shobha Tyagi, member of the local organizing team.

The GNOME Asia Committee wants to thank everyone who participated in the GNOME.Asia Summit 2016 bidding process and wish the 2016 organizing team best of luck with organizing a great conference.

[Image by Ankur via Wikimedia commons, licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0.]

GNOME’s 2014 Fiscal Year Annual Report Published

Today marks the beginning of a new financial year, and the GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the release of its latest annual report, which covers the outgoing 2014 financial year. The Report reviews all the events and activities in the GNOME project during the 2014 financial year, including hackfests, conferences, our releases, outreach activities and more.

Jean-François Fortin Tam, president of the GNOME Foundation for 2014-2015, states in the introduction letter: “2014 is on record as one of the most challenging years in the Foundation’s history. It is also the year that has given us the most demonstrative and passionate display of support—from our members, our contributors, and the Free Software community—that we have ever experienced.”

We want to take this opportunity to thank the Friends of GNOME and our Advisory Board members for their support of the Foundation and its operations.