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GNOME.Asia Summit 2019 Call for participation is now open

GNOME.Asia Summit 2019 invites you to participate as a speaker at the conference on the 12th and 13th of October 2019 in Gresik, Indonesia.

GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covers applications and the 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 the present technology and future developments.

Topics of Call for Proposal (CFP)

GNOME.Asia Summit 2019 will invite talks/workshop relevant to GNOME and FLOSS. We welcome proposals by newcomers and experienced speakers alike.

The possible topics include, but not limited to:

Contributing to GNOME

  • Latest developments
  • Writing applications for GNOME 3
  • UI design
  • QA and testing
  • Accessibility
  • Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
  • Marketing/Engagement
  • Asia success stories / Local GNOME Projects
  • GNOME and Education
  • FOSS outreach programs, including Google Summer of Code
  • Developing GNOME on mobile devices (smart phones, tablets)
  • Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open hardware
  • Contributing to Linux and F/LOSS

Linux kernel and development

  • The development and promotion of open-source operating systems
  • About Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and other distributions
  • The development and promotion of other open-source projects
  • Open Source Enlightenment and Related Story

The Knowledge and Spirit of Open Source

  • Open Source stories of your own
  • How to optimize the process and improve efficiency with the help of open-source tools
  • How to engage non-technical clightning talksontributors in Open Source Projects
  • How to engage more female contributors in Open Source Projects
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • DevOps with AI
  • Deep Learning
  • AR & VR
  • Big Data
  • Distributed systems
  • Open Source DevOps

We are also interested in other topics related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software which are not listed above.

Type of Session
You can choose from 2 of these sessions:

  1. Standard session. Standard session will be scheduled for 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A). The session could be a technical talk, panel discussion, or BOF. If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch with the organizing team.
  2. Lightning talk session. This session is a 5 mins presentation for demonstrating your work or promoting an interesting topic.

Submission Criteria
Please provide a short abstract of your proposal (under 150 words). Include your name, biographical information, a photo suitable for the web, a title, and a description of your presentation. Please submit your proposal to the following submission form. The reviewing team will evaluate the entries based on the submitted abstracts and available time by following the schedule.

  • Submission timeline: July, 15th to August, 31th 2019
  • Confirmation of paper acceptance: September, 11th 2019

Travel sponsorship
There will be an opportunity for speakers and GNOME Foundation members to request sponsorship by the GNOME Foundation. Please submit your applications to the GNOME Travel Committee. For further information please refer to this guide https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel

We are waiting for your proposal. All interested contributors are highly encouraged to send in talks. More information about GNOME.Asia Summit 2019 is available at https://asiasummit.gnome.id

The GNOME.Asia 2019 Team

Annual Report 2018

What a wonderful year 2018 was!

We are very excited to share with you some of our best moments, achievements, and great conferences/events which happened throughout the year in our annual report.

Worth mentioning:

  • Two new releases, 3.28 and 3.30, with some great new features and support for Thunderbolt 3 connections with added security checks that are designed to prevent data theft.
    Many improvements have been added for configuring touchpads and Bluetooth devices.
  • The GNOME screen reading application, Orca, saw a significant amount of refinement. A large number of bugs were fixed.
    Orca now has better interaction with GNOME Shell, with improvements to performance, minimizing searches for unrelated labels, and many fixes for gnome-shell extensions.
  • GNOME moved to Gitlab: this was definitely one of of the most impactful transitions. With around 5344 opened issues, 9717 closed issues and 7085 merged requests merged Gitlab is now not only a code hub but also beneficial for the whole community as a project management tool used by engagement team, conference organization team, and Board of Directors and by other communities.
  • We count 15 unique event locations, 17 events, 7 conferences attended and 10 hackfests which GNOME organized and/or attended.
    2018 brings memories of GUADEC in Almeria, LAS in Denver , GNOME ASIA in Taipei, and many other successful events.
  • Financially speaking two large donations were received in 2017 which is increased budget for events, hackfests, doubling of the funding for the Outreachy program, and hiring of new people in staff.
    Many thanks goes to our small donors and all companies that supports us in our mission.
  • GNOME had 15 students who successfully finished the Google Summer and two who successfully completed Outreachy internship by working in GNOME core applications, libraries, and new projects of Code internship by working in GNOME core applications, libraries, and new projects.

For more information and details please see the Annual Report .

2018 wouldn’t have been this awesome without you!
Cheers and looking forward to coming years.

GNOME Asia Summit 2019 to be held in Gresik, Indonesia

The GNOME foundation is pleased to announce that GNOME Asia Summit 2019 will take place in Gresik, Indonesia between 11-13 October at the Universitas Muhammadiyah Gresik (UMG).

This city has been known to the world since 11th century as a strategic trade center. It is located on the western side of Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia.

The GNOME Asia 2019 Summit will consist of two conference days and one day of workshops, in order to encourage more contribution by GNOME.Asia participants to core areas of GNOME.

The event will be supported by local Free Software communities and the Foundation. For press inquiries please mail info@gnome.org

The GNOME.Asia Summit 2019 website will be released in the upcoming weeks with more information about the event. In the meantime, any questions about the conference can be sent to asia-summit-list@gnome.org, and interested sponsors can send queries to gnome-asia-committee-list@gnome.org. 

We also encourage those interested in the summit to follow @GNOMEAsia on Twitter, or our main @GNOME social media accounts, for more up-to-date information on various activities and key dates for the conference.


LAS 2019 Call for Locations

The GNOME and KDE communities are excited in their joint interest in co-hosting the Linux App Summit (LAS) this year, and are currently looking for locations for an event that is hosted sometime in September – December 2019.

The Linux App Summit is an evolution of the Libre Application Summit that was previously hosted by GNOME. The updated name reflects an interest in building new partnerships to create applications that target Linux desktops. By co-hosting the conference with KDE, GNOME hopes to create a space for more widespread collaboration and working towards a common goal: expanding the Linux application ecosystem.

If you would be interested in hosting LAS 2019, please send an email to appsummit@lists.freedesktop.org by May 15th with the potential location. This will allow the organizing committee to establish contact with you and lend assistance as you put together a bid later on.

For more information and relevant deadlines, please check out the LAS/Linux App Summit website: http://linuxappsummit.org/cfl/


We look forward to hearing from you!

GUADEC 2019 Call for Papers

GUADEC, the GNOME User and Developer European Conference, is GNOME’s main annual conference. This year it is being held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 23rd to 28th of August

This is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the GNOME project, as well as the wider open source community. You don’t have to be an existing member of the GNOME project to submit a talk: if you have something interesting to say about software or technology, we want to hear from you! If you’re brand new to speaking, this is also a great opportunity to get started on your public speaking career — we welcome newcomers and provide a friendly audience.

Subjects that we’re particularly interested in include:

1- Application development and deployment
2- Privacy and security
3- Community building and diversity
4- Design of user and developer experiences
5- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
6- Encouraging new contributors
7- Project organisation and governance
8- Use of GNOME by users

However, if there is another subject that you would like to talk about, we would still love to receive your submission. Talks can be either 25 or 40 minutes in length, which includes time for questions.

You can find more information for proposals in:
https://2019.guadec.org/pages/submit-a-proposal.html

BoFs/workshop and hacking days wiki will be updated with more details in the upcoming weeks.

In case you have questions for talks, please contact the papers team at guadec-papers@gnome.org. For general questions regarding GUADEC please contact the organizing team at guadec-organization@gnome.org


Meet GNOME at FOSS-North

Foss-North is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective.

Hosted in Gothenburg, this event takes place during April 7-10 at Chalmers Conference Centre.
FOSS-North provides a meeting place for the Nordic FOSS communities and will bring together great speakers with a great audience.

On 7th of April there is the Community day. In this workshop, we will host an introduction to GNOME community, the projects we are developing now and the areas that people with no technical background can contribute to.
After the introduction we will host a newcomers workshop, which is for developers who want to participate in coding GNOME’s apps.

On 8th and 9th of April during the conference days we will be present with our booth. Be sure to not miss it and feel welcome to grab some awesome swag at table 12!

See you soon there!


GNOME presence in LibrePlanet 2019

This year GNOME will attend LibrePlanet, which is a conference hosted by the Free Software Foundation

LibrePlanet brings together software developers, law and policy experts, activists, students, and computer users to learn skills, celebrate free software accomplishments, and face challenges to software freedom.

This conference will take place on March 23rd-24th in Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,Cambridge, MA.

When you will be in the venue do not miss our booth at Exhibit Hall

The Exhibit Hall at LibrePlanet will be open from 9:00 – 18:00 on both conference days, with cool swag and goodies that Free Software enthusiasts would love.

Feel welcome to drop in to our GNOME booth, get some cool stickers and share with us your GNOME love and experience or ask us anything for our products and software.

Check the website https://libreplanet.org/2019/ for more info and let us know you are around with our hashtag 2019

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GNOME 3.32 Released

The latest version of GNOME 3 has been released today. Version 3.32 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance improvements and new features.

This release features a refreshed visual style ranging from an entirely new set of app icons to improvements to the user interface style. Many of the base style colors have been saturated, giving them a more vivid, vibrant appearance. Buttons are more rounded and have a softer “shadow” border. Switches no longer use the explicit ON and OFF text, instead using color to indicate state.

The application icons underwent a major design overhaul, resulting in a beautiful set of icons and an improved set of guidelines for icon designers.

GNOME 3.32 continues to push the boundaries around HiDPI and graphics too. This release introduces an experimental feature for Wayland desktop sessions that enables fractional scaling. Once enabled, desktops at certain resolutions can be scaled by non-integer values (150%, 175%).

Additionally, several improvements to data structures in the GNOME Desktop led to noticeable frame rate improvements. This results in a faster, snappier feel to the animations, icons and top “shell” panel. Searching in many GNOME apps is faster now too, thanks to major performance enhancements to the GNOME search database.

The complete list of features and improvements are in the release notes.

GNOME 3.32 is code-named “Taipei” in recognition of the most recent GNOME.Asia, held this past August in Taipei, Taiwan.

The GNOME Project is supported by the GNOME Foundation. We rely on donations to continue to drive the project forward. If you appreciate the work we do, please consider joining as a Friend of GNOME.

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GNOME presence in SCALE 17x

SCaLE 17x – is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America – which will take place on March. 7-10, 2019, at the Pasadena Convention Center. 

This event expects to host 150 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 130 sessions, tutorials and special events.

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We are happy to be at this event with our booth full of cool stickers, t-shirts,socks and delighted to meet you all. We are booth number 619, don’t forget to pass by and say hi!

Check the page https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x for more updates and don’t forget to share some GNOME love with hashtags      

GNOME to be present at FOSDEM 2019

GNOME will be present at FOSDEM 2019 which is taking place this weekend in Brussels, Belgium, February 2 – 3. FOSDEM which is one of the largest gatherings for Free Software contributors.

GNOME will be hosting a booth where attendees can test the latest version of GNOME, talk to contributors and more.

On Saturday 2th GNOME will be hosting a social evening event at the A La Bécasse pub where people are welcome. More details about GNOME’s presence is available on the on the main FOSDEM event wiki page, or by visiting the GNOME booth in the ‘K’ building.

In addition a GTK+ developer Hackfest is planned to be held in Brussels February 4-6, right after the main conference.

Stay tuned for updates!

We’re looking forward to see you.

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