Month: August 2020

GNOME Foundation Executive Director Neil McGovern will deliver a keynote at Open Source Summit Europe. 

In the talk “Patently Obvious: The Year Open Source Got Sued”, Neil McGovern will discuss the GNOME Foundation’s triumphant legal settlement with Rothschild Patent Imaging, a non-practicing entity. In September 2019, Rothschild Patent Imaging alleged that GNOME was in violation of one of its patents. In May 2020, the case was resolved under the representation of  Shearman and Sterling LLP. You can read more about the resolution online.

Open Source Summit Europe is a conference hosted by the Linux Foundation, traditionally taking place in Europe. This year’s conference will be October 26 – 29, taking place entirely online. Previous years have brought together thousands of attendees from all over the world. 

While Neil McGovern’s session is not yet scheduled, we will update you once it is. If you can’t wait for Open Source Summit Europe, you can watch “The Growth of GNOME” from GUADEC 2019 or check out a more recent interview with OpenUK.

GNOME is participating in another round of Google Season of Docs! We have a long history of mentoring and outreach, and consider Season of Docs to be a continuation of those efforts. Season of Docs was started by Google in 2019 to bring technical writers and free and open source projects together. Projects will allow writers to gain experience in contributing to FOSS while learning about the technical complexities and helping projects improve their documentation. This year we welcome two new technical writers.

Our first writer, Pranali, will be working on updating GNOME Applications Help Documentation. Pranali has experience in technical writing and documentation and has worked with organizations like Haiku OS and Red Hat in the past. This project will be mentored by longtime GNOME Foundation members and contributors, Shaun McCance and Petr Kovar.

Our second writer, Wisdom, will focus on GObject Tutorial Consolidation. Wisdom is a member of our GNOME Africa community and has a background in writing, development, and UX/UI Design. This project will be mentored by GNOME Foundation GTK Core Developer Emmanuele Bassi.

Google Season of Docs projects were announced on August 16 and our technical writers will now begin the community bonding period during which they’ll learn more about the GNOME community and the people in the projct. Docs development will start on September 14 and run through to early December when the writers will submit their final projects for evaluation.  

See all projects selected for this year’s Season of Docs: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants.