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  • GNOME 3.12 Released

    The GNOME Project has released GNOME 3.12 today. The next milestone release in the GNOME 3 series includes many new features, enhancements and updates, as well as new capabilities and APIs for application developers. The new version continues to improve the GNOME 3 user experience and includes many small bug fixes and enhancements.

    Speaking on behalf of the GNOME Release Team, Matthias Clasen said “This is an exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new features and improvements, including app folders, enhanced system status and high-resolution display support.” He also thanked the GNOME community for their work on the release, saying that “This six months’ effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world”.

    Major features for this release include:

    • A significant update to the experience for finding and installing applications.
    • Major facelifts for the Videos and gedit applications.
    • Greater high-resolution display support.
    • Big updates for the Software and Web applications.
    • Improved start up times as well as more efficient resource usage.
    • A new application folders feature, which lets you organize your apps.

    3.12 is also a major release for developers, and comes with new interface widgets and APIs, as well as improved documentation.

    The release contains many other improvements, which you can read about in the release notes.

    The latest GNOME release has been met with anticipation by the project’s partners. Christian Schaller, manager of Red Hat’s Desktop Team, said: “Red Hat is very pleased to see the GNOME community continuing to push the GNU/Linux desktop forward. We are looking forward to the innovations in GNOME 3.12 arriving in future versions of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.” GNOME 3 is already in use by many companies who will benefit from the improvements in the new release.

    Arun S A G, Software Development Engineer at Yahoo Inc said “GNOME is the desktop environment of choice for many Yahoo developers. It provides a stable foundation for GNU/Linux power users to get things done, from reading emails to writing code.”

    The GNOME Foundation thanks all of the contributors for their hard work, perseverance, and vision in this release.

    The 3.12 announcement press release includes additional materials.

  • GNOME 3.12 Released with New Features for Users and Developers

    Orinda, CA– The GNOME Project is proud to release GNOME 3.12 today. The next milestone release in the GNOME 3 series includes many new features, enhancements and updates, as well as new capabilities and APIs for application developers. The new version continues to improve the GNOME 3 user experience and includes many small bug fixes and enhancements.

    Speaking on behalf of the GNOME Release Team, Matthias Clasen said “This is an exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new features and improvements, including app folders, enhanced system status and high-resolution display support.” He also thanked the GNOME community for their work on the release, saying that “This six months’ effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world”.

    The latest GNOME release has been met with anticipation by the project’s partners. Christian Schaller, manager of Red Hat’s Desktop Team, said: “Red Hat is very pleased to see the GNOME community continuing to push the GNU/Linux desktop forward. We are looking forward to the innovations in GNOME 3.12 arriving in future versions of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”

    GNOME 3 is already in use by many companies who will benefit from the improvements in the new release. Arun S A G, Software Development Engineer at Yahoo Inc said “GNOME is the desktop environment of choice for many Yahoo developers. It provides a stable foundation for GNU/Linux power users to get things done, from reading emails to writing code.”

    Seth Schoen, Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also commented, “EFF is proud to use GNOME. Personally, I look forward to checking out the new features and fixes in the release.”

    Major new features for this release include a significant update to the experience for finding and installing applications, as well as major facelifts for the Videos and gedit applications. Those who have high resolution displays will benefit from greater support, and users will experience better start up times as well as more efficient resource usage. They will also be able to quickly organize their applications with the new application folders feature.

    Other highlights for GNOME 3.12 include:

    • A big update to the GNOME web browser, with improved performance and UI enhancements.
    • Three new preview applications – Logs, Sound Recorder, and Polari – a new IRC client for GNOME.
    • Photos has been updated with new Facebook integration.
    • A new search feature for Terminals.
    • Integrated Google Cloud Print support.
    • A revamped Initial Setup Assistant.
    • The use of the new popovers widget in a number of core applications.

    3.12 is a major release for developers, and comes with a host of new APIs and widgets. New GTK+ user interface widgets include GtkPopover, GtkActionBar and GtkFlowBox, and provide exciting new possibilities for application developers. A new API provides integrated support for desktop notifications. 3.12 also includes a powerful new process launching API. Finally, much of GNOME’s developer documentation has been improved for 3.12, with enhancements to structure, formatting and content. For our BSD friends, GNOME has enhanced portability, with over 150 FreeBSD issues fixed and test builds running regularly. Work for other operating systems is ongoing.

    More details about GNOME 3.12 can be found in the release notes. A pack of screenshots is also available.

    The GNOME Foundation thanks all of the contributors for their hard work, perseverance, and vision in this release.

    About GNOME

    GNOME was started in 1997 by two then-university students, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero. Their aim: to produce a free (as in freedom) desktop environment. Since then, GNOME has grown into a hugely successful enterprise. Used by millions of people around the world, it is the most popular environment for GNU/Linux and UNIX-type operating systems. GNOME’s software has been utilized in successful, large-scale enterprise and public deployments.

    The GNOME community is made up of hundreds of contributors from all over the world, many of whom are volunteers. This community is supported by the GNOME Foundation, an independent non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and legal assistance. The Foundation is a democratic institution that is directed by its members, who are all active GNOME contributors. GNOME and its Foundation works to promote software freedom through the creation of innovative, accessible, and beautiful user experiences.

  • Time to apply for OPW and GSoC

    With the summer coming closer, the GNOME Foundation are excited to announce applications are open for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreach Program for Women.

    Outreach Program for Women

    Outreach Program for Women offers a $5500 stipend for a four months internship working with a Free/Open Source organization. The program accepts proposals not only for coding projects, but also for documentation, design, and marketing projects. Every organization has mentors to guide and work with accepted participants during the course of the internship and application process.

    As part of the application process, applicants must contribute to the project they indents to work on during the internship.

    “Participating in the GNOME community as an intern allowed me to gain an understanding of the technologies used for development and the structure of free/open source teams. These skills have helped to enrich my understanding of FOSS and computer science”
    -Meg Ford former Outreach Program for Women intern

    The GNOME community encourages anyone interested to visit the Outreach Program for Women website, and to check our wiki where project ideas are listed. The application deadline for this round of the program is March 19.

    Google Summer of Code

    Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an internship program sponsored by Google. Just like the Outreach Program for Women, GSoC offers a $5500 scholarship for students to work on Free/Open Source projects along with a mentor from the community.

    2014 marks the 10th year of the program, and the GNOME project has participated every year. The program presents a great opportunity for students to get involved with our community, and to use their developments skill to contribute to the project. Many project ideas are available, and as usual students are also welcome to discuss their own ideas with prospective mentors!

    Applications for this year’s round of GSoC are open until March 21.

    Join Us

    We are looking forward to welcome this year’s interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women!

    If you’re interest in applying to work with GNOME, get in touch with us! The sooner you start your application, the better your chances to be accepted for both programs.

  • GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 T-shirt Contest

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    GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 will be held in Beijing, China in May 24-25, 2014.  We are looking for YOUR help to design t-shirts for this year’s Summit. We need two new shirt designs, one for participants and another for volunteers.

    The contest is open from now until March 31st, 2014. Voting will begin April 1st and run through April 3, 2014.

    Everyone is encouraged to log in and vote at this page:

    http://2014.gnome.asia/tshirts/

    Prizes

    No contest should be called a contest without some prizes! This year we have the following up for grab:

    • Winner:  A Special gift from local team and two t-shirts with your winning design

    Note: The final decision will be made by GNOME.Asia Summit Committee.  Please understand that the highest vote score of the design may not be designated the final winner due to cost or other production considerations.

    Good luck!

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  • GNOME contributor Allan Day in shortlist of award nominees

    The GNOME Foundation congratulates Allan Day on being included in the shortlist of candidates being considered for the individual category of the UK Open Source Awards for his “positive impact on Open Source software in the UK.” Allan won the prestigious annual award for key contributor in the GNOME community last year at GUADEC in Brno and is recognized in the GNOME community as a critical contributor to the project.

    The winner will be announced at the award ceremony on February 26th, 2014 in Edinburgh at the Informatics Forum. We’ve got our fingers crossed and we’re proud that Allan has been already recognized in this way!

  • Pitivi launches GNOME-hosted fundraising campaign

    GNOME is pleased to announce that it is hosting a fundraising campaign for Pitivi. Their fundraising page launched today, with a video explaining the campaign (which was made with Pitivi). As they say in their announcement:

    Free and Open Source video editing is something that can help make the world a better place, as it gives people all around the world one more tool to express themselves creatively, fight oppression, create happiness and spread love.

    GNOME provides the infrastructure for the campaign and donations are considered charitable in the United States to the extent of applicable law. You can donate to the campaign here.

  • GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 is now Calling for Papers

    GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 invites proposals for presentations at the conference. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The conference will be held in BeiHang University, Beijing, China on May 24 -25, 2014.  The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.12, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world.  It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the GNOME 3.12 release and to help make GNOME as successful as possible. We welcome proposals by newcomers and experienced speakers alike.

    Click here to submit your presentation!

    Possible topics include, but not limited to:

    How to Promote/Contribute to GNOME in Asia

    • GNOME Marketing
    • Promotion of Free / Open Source Software
    • How to run a Local GNOME Users Group
    • Asia success stories / Local GNOME Projects
    • GNOME and Educations
    • GNOME Outreach Program for Women
    • Google Summer of Code

    Hacking GNOME

    • Latest developments in GNOME
    • GNOME 3 & GNOME 3 Usability
    • GNOME Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
    • QA and testing in GNOME
    • GNOME Accessibility
    • GNOME Coding How-to
    • Writing applications for GNOME 3
    • Integration of web life into the desktop

    Adapting GNOME to new types of devices

    • Developing GNOME on mobile devices (smart phones, tablets)
    • Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open source hardware
    • On-going projects and success stories
    • Finding Free and Open Source friendly hardware manufacturers

    Localization and Internationalization

    • Translations
    • Input methods
    • Fonts

    Other topics could include any topic related to Free and Open Source Software not listed above.

    Lightning talks! A five minute presentation to demonstrate your work or promote an interesting topic. These talks will be grouped together in a single session.

    A standard session at GNOME.Asia 2014 will be scheduled as 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A).  Please take into consideration any time you will need for preparation. The session could be a technical talk, panel discussion, or BOF.

    If you’d like to share your knowledge and experience at GNOME.Asia 2014, please fill in the form at before March 3th, 2014.  Please provide a short abstract about your proposal (under 150 words). Include your name, biographical information, a photo suitable for the web, a title, and a description of your presentation . The reviewing team will evaluate the entries based on the submitted abstracts and available time in the schedule. You will be contacted before March 16th, 2014 on whether your submission has been accepted or not.

    All interested contributors are highly encouraged to send in their talks.  Please help us to spread the invitation to other potential participants. Even you do not plan to be a speaker, please consider joining GNOME.Asia 2014. This is going to be a great event!

  • GNOME Documentation Hackfest Concludes in Norwich, UK

    The GNOME Documentation Team met in Norwich, UK, this week for a five day hackfest. Held from January 26 to January 30, the event was hosted at the University of East Anglia’s School of Computer Science. The hackfest was very successful, and included fifteen attendees as well as five remote participants.

    Docs Hackfest 2014. Picture by Frederic Peters
    Docs Hackfest 2014. Picture by Frederic Peters

    The team used the event as an opportunity to prepare GNOME’s user documentation for the upcoming 3.12 release. Other highlights of the hackfest included:

    • A new, easy and more visual appealing design for the help viewer Yelp.
    • A major update of the long awaited GNOME Administrator Guide.
    • An improved and updated organization of the documentation of the email client Evolution.
    • New features in Mallard, the markup language used for writing the GNOME documentation, and the related tools.

    The event was made possible by the sponsorship of the GNOME Foundation. Many thanks to the University of East Anglia for providing such a great venue.

    Attendees from the hackfest will, along with many other GNOME contributors, attend this year’s FOSDEM conference in Brussels this weekend. GNOME will have a stand at the event, and there will be a party on the Saturday night.

  • WebKitGTK+ Hackfest Underway in A Coruña

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    The annual WebKitGTK+ hackfest is currently underway in A Coruña, Spain. Going into its fifth year, 2013’s event is the biggest so far, including an unprecedented 30 participants.

    The four day event is focusing on everything web in GNOME and GTK+. WebKitGTK+ developer Claudio Saavedra reports that multiple web processes and user interface improvements to the GNOME web browser are both priorities for the hackfest.

    You can follow all the action on the @WebKitGTK+ Twitter feed.

    The event has been made possible by sponsorship of Igalia and the GNOME Foundation. Other sponsors are helping with travel costs, accommodation, coffee and snacks. Many thanks to Samsung, Adobe, Company100 and Cable Labs.

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  • GNOME Montréal Summit Starts Tomorrow

    Vue du vieux-port et du centre-ville de Montréal

    The annual GNOME summit starts tomorrow. Contributors are gathering from around the world for four days of discussion and working sessions. Scheduled topics include Wayland, Boxes, and the GNOME continuous build system.

    Traditionally held in Boston, this is the 13th GNOME summit, and the second to be held in Montréal.

    The summit is an informal event and everyone is welcome. For those who are interested, there will be a happy hour community meetup with the Montreal Linux community on Saturday afternoon. More information can be found on the wiki.

    Thanks to CRIM for hosting the event and Savoir-faire Linux for sponsoring. Thanks also to Red Hat for sponsoring the Sunday social event, and to Canonical for providing our hungry hackers with tea, coffee and bagels.

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