GNOME Asia Summit 2019 will take place this weekend in Gresik, Indonesia.
The main focus is primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also applications and platform development tools are covered. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments.
Our executive director Neil McGovern and our director of operations Rosanna Yuen will keynote the summit.
More information about Asia Summit 2019 including a schedule and the full list of speakers can be found on the official website at https://2019.gnome.asia/
The GNOME Foundation has been made aware of a lawsuit from Rothschild Patent Imaging, LLC over patent 9,936,086. Rothschild allege that Shotwell, a free and open source personal photo manager infringes this patent.
Neil McGovern, Executive Director for the GNOME Foundation says “We have retained legal counsel and intend to vigorously defend against this baseless suit. Due to the ongoing litigation, we unfortunately cannot make any further comments at this time.”
Updates to this case will be published on www.gnome.org.
GNOME Asia Summit 2019 which will take place between 13-14th October in Gresik, Indonesia.
The main focus is primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also applications and platform development tools are covered. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments.
More information about the GNOME 2019 Summit including a schedule, the list of speakers and venue information is available on the official website at https://2019.gnome.asia/.
The Foundation is looking forward to meet everyone who makes it to Gresik.
The latest version of GNOME 3 has been released today. Version 3.34 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance improvements and new features.
Highlights from this release include visual refreshes for a number of applications, including the desktop itself. The background selection settings also received a redesign, making it easier to select custom backgrounds.
GNOME 3.34 also introduces custom folders in the application overview. Simply drag an application icon on top of another to create a folder. Folders are automatically removed when all icons have been dragged out of them.
For developers, GNOME 3.34 includes more data sources in Sysprof, making performance profiling an application even easier. Multiple improvements to Builder include an integrated D-Bus inspector.
The complete list of features and improvements are in the release notes.
GNOME 3.34 is code-named “Thessaloniki” in recognition of the most recent GUADEC, held this past August in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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After nine weeks, Google Summer of Code 2019 has concluded. During the summer, nine students have worked on a range of projects which will yield great benefits to upcoming versions of GNOME.
There no there is no doubt that this represents a substantial amount of effort and we hope that all of the students will stay as GNOME contributors.
The highlights of the completed projects include efforts to convert GStreamer plugins to Rust, implementing a saved states manager for GNOME Games, adding preview links in Polari (GNOME’s irc client), a rework of the Gtk website, implementing side by side diff view in Gitg and more.
As well as appreciating the student’s work, the GNOME Foundation is grateful to our mentors – all experienced community members who have contributed valuable time and energy helping guide the students to complete their respective projects.
The GNOME Foundation also wants to thank Google who provides the resources for Google Summer Of Code to run.
If you are not a GNOME contributor yet there is available information on how get involved – we love to have you on-board. A complete list of projects with links to respective to project is available on the GNOME wiki.
The GNOME Foundation, with support from Endless, has announced the Coding Education Challenge, a competition aimed to attract projects that offer educators and students new and innovative ideas to teach coding with free and open source software. The $500,000 in funding will support the prizes, which will be awarded to the teams who advance through the three stages of the competition.
Both the GNOME Foundation and Endless share a deep commitment to a vibrant free and open source software ecosystem.
“We’re very grateful that Endless has come forward to provide more opportunities for individuals to learn about free and open source software,” said Neil McGovern, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation. “We’re excited to see what can be achieved when we empower the creativity and imagination of our global community. We hope to make powerful partnerships between students and educators to explore the possibilities of our rich and diverse software ecosystem. Reaching the next generation of developers is crucial to ensuring that free software continues for many years in the future.”
Endless is an organization comprised of companies, initiatives, and philanthropic endeavors with the singular mission to help children take control of their digital worlds, not be controlled by them.
Matt Dalio, founder of Endless, hopes this grant will inspire new ideas that encourage students and teachers to embrace programming and coding education. “We’re eager to see the various ways that the GNOME Foundation and the wider community will create pathways for people into the world of free and open source software,” Dalio said. “We fully believe in GNOME’s mission of making technology available and providing the tools of digital agency to all. What’s so unique about the GNOME Project is that it delivers a fully-working personal computer system, which is a powerful real-world vehicle to teach kids to code. There are so many potential ways for this competition to build flourishing ecosystems that empower the next generation to create, learn and build.”
Anyone is encouraged to submit a proposal. Individuals and teams will be judged through three tiers of competition.
For more details and to learn how to submit a proposal when the competition opens, please look for coming announcements on the GNOME Foundation website https://www.gnome.org/news/ or social media.
GNOME’s main conference, GUADEC, will run from tomorrow, Friday, August 24th to Tuesday, August 28th in Thessaloniki, Greece. Thessaloniki is Greece’s second-largest city located in the North of the country.
GUADEC 2019 will feature 3 days of presentations, and afterwards there are 2 days reserved for BOFs or Birds of a feather sessions and workshops.
GUADEC represents an important opportunity for the community, partners and individuals to come together, discuss ideas, solve problems and get work done. It is no understatement that the community is excited about the event.
More information about GUADEC including the schedule for the conference and information about social events is available at guadec.org
The GNOME Foundation is very thankful for the sponsors, the organizers and individuals who make GUADEC possible.
The West Coast 2019 Hackfest which took place in Portland, Oregon, US between July 18-21 gathered members from several teams including coders, members of the documentation team, and the engagement team.
Behdad Esfahbod and Matthias Clasen worked on improving Pango, GNOME’s text rendering library. Improvements was also made to GtkTextView, an important a Gtk widget with Matthias and Christian Hergert leading the effort.
Documentation team contributors tackled issues improving the state of the GNOME documentation, as well as improving the documentation infrastructure.
The Documentation team at the Hackfest
Members of the engagement team had a serious look at the GNOME website to identify areas which can be improved.
The 2019 West Coast Hackfest was generally agreed as an successful event by the participants. Links to blogs with more details about the work done can be found on the West Coast Hackfest wiki page.
The GNOME Foundation wants to thank all the individuals who made the event such a success!
This year, LAS will be held in Barcelona, Spain from November 12th to 15th. Our Call for Participation (CfP) opens on July 31st, and will run until August 31st.
The Linux App Summit, formerly called the Libre Application Summit, is a conference focused on building a Linux application ecosystem. LAS aims to encourage the creation of quality applications, seek opportunities for compensation for FOSS developers, and foster a thriving market for the Linux operating system.
Previous iterations of this conference have been held in the United States, in Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado. This year, Barcelona, Spain was chosen as the hosting location due to growing international interest.
Barcelona is known for embracing open source technology, and is a leader in driving open source technology at the government level. Barcelona is also known as one of the world’s most influential cities and a major touristic and cultural attraction. We are thrilled to have the first international version of the Linux App Summit hosted in Barcelona.
Venue
The conference will take place at Lleialtat Santsenca, a beautiful community space that hosts many meetups and conferences, and which has been featured in architectural articles due to the startling contrast between its art deco facade and its minimalist interior.
About the Summit
The core conference days will be held from November 12th – 14th. November 15th will be reserved for BoFs and hackathons since we want to encourage participants to collaborate. We hope participants will not only meet and talk about change, but also lead with results.
Everyone is invited to attend LAS, and there will be travel sponsorship available in order to make it a more inclusive event. Companies, journalists, and individuals who are interested in learning more about the Linux desktop application space and growing their user base are especially welcome.
Week of 9 September – Speaker notification begins.
12 to 15 November – LAS conference dates. There will be 3 core days and 1 day for BoFs and hackathons.
The organizing team, GNOME, and KDE, are excited about the possibilities of our combined influence to no longer sit passive, but to lead and plan for the future.
We hope you will join us in Barcelona. See you there!
The GNOME Foundation would like to invite bids for hosting GUADEC 2020. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME users and developers, which takes place every year, and you could make it happen next year!
If you are interested in submitting a bid to host GUADEC 2020 in your city, please send an intention to bid by end of the day on Friday, August 16th. Bids will be due on September 13th, and you can talk to the Foundation Board and previous GUADEC organizers to find out more about what is involved.
Your bid should demonstrate that:
The location is easily
accessible by plane or train
You have a motivated local team
with a few core members, preferably with experience in event
organization
A good venue is available to
host the event
There are affordable
accommodations and places to eat
Bids
from previous years are available for reference. While organizing
a conference such as GUADEC is a huge undertaking, people from the
GNOME community have been there before you and will be there to help.
You can find more information at: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/HowTo, including an overview of the sorts of things you should include in the proposal.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with
the Foundation board at board-list@gnome.org.
