Month: September 2022

GNOME.Asia Summit 2022 invites you to participate as a speaker! Join us for this year’s conference on December 2nd-4th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by submitting your abstract.

GNOME.Asia is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia and focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, applications, and platform development tools. The Summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss current technology and future developments. Possible talk topics are suggested below, but topics are not limited to this list.

Suggested Topics

• Contributing to GNOME
• UI design
• Accessibility
• Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
• Marketing/Engagement
• Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open hardware
• Contributing to Linux and FLOSS
• Linux kernel and development
• The development and promotion of open-source operating systems
• Distributions, including Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD
• The development and promotion of other open source projects
• We are also interested in other topics related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software that is not listed above.

Sessions will be scheduled for 30 or 50 minutes (Q&A included). The session could be a technical or non-technical talk, panel discussion, workshop, or Birds of a Feather session (BoF). If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch with the organizing team by emailing asia@gnome.org.

NOTE: This year all speakers requiring travel sponsorship by GNOME Foundation should apply at the same time as submitting their CfP. Both Call for Participation submissions and Travel Sponsorship requests are due by October 10th.

Submission Criteria

• Please provide a short abstract of your presentation (under 200 words). Also include your name, biographical information, title, and desired length of the session. 
• Please submit your proposal to the following link: https://events.gnome.org/event/100/abstracts/#submit-abstract

Submission deadline: October 10, 2022.

The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 43, ‘Guadalajara’.

This release brings a completely redesigned system settings menu which allows quickly changing common settings, including switching between Light and Dark mode. The new Device Security page provides information about the security of your physical hardware and firmware. Many of the core applications have been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita and received improvements in the process, such as Files, Maps, Builder and many others.

To learn more about the changes in GNOME 43, see the full release notes.

GNOME 43 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want to try it today, you can look for the imminent Fedora 37 beta release or the openSUSE nightly live images which both include GNOME 43. gnome.org/getting-gnome

We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes with UEFI support. We suggest getting Boxes from flathub. os.gnome.org

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 43, look for the GNOME 43 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org repository.

This six-month effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators, companies, artists, testers, the local GUADEC team in Guadalajara, and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

We hope to see some of you at GNOME Asia 2022 in Malaysia – now accepting talk submissions! Our next release, GNOME 44, is planned for March 2023. Until then, enjoy GNOME 43.

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Join the Celebration

Celebrate the release of GNOME 43 with a local release party! If you’re planning to host a gathering and want to share it with the community add it to our wiki page. Want to make an even bigger splash? Combine your party with a 25th Anniversary party!

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Support GNOME

To get involved, please visit gnome.org/get-involved/, and to help support GNOME in producing a free and easy-to-use desktop, visit gnome.org/donate/.