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Call for Hosts for GNOME.Asia Summit 2012
The GNOME.Asia Committee is inviting proposals to host GNOME.Asia Summit during the 1st quarter of 2012. GNOME.Asia Summit is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers Conference in Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, and also covers applications and the development platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide…
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GNOME 3 Photo Competition Results
Over 140 parties were organized all over the world to celebrate the release of GNOME 3.0. To help capture the moment, we invited people to take photographs of their parties and a competition was held for the best images. The GNOME project received lots of great party photographs, and the competition judges have been hard…
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Board of Directors Elections 2011
GNOME’s Membership and Elections Committee has announced 2011’s Foundation elections. Members of the GNOME Foundation will have the opportunity to propose themselves for the Board of Directors and to vote on their preferred candidates. The GNOME Foundation’s Board of Directors has seven positions; its members work to ensure the effective running of the Foundation and…
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After a Successful First Round, GNOME Project Announces new Outreach Program for Women Interns
April 26, 2011 — BOSTON, Mass. — The GNOME 3.0 release has far more contributions by women than any previous release in GNOME history. This is largely thanks to the hard work of the first round of the Outreach Program for Women interns, who participated in the program from December 15, 2010 to March 15,…
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3.2 Feature Planning Underway
With the 3.0 release behind it, the GNOME project has already set its sights on the next GNOME release. Developers and designers already busy planning which features will be included in GNOME 3.2. The 3.2 feature proposal period is scheduled to last until May 9th 2011. During this time, contributors can propose plans for new…
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Photo Competition Deadline Coming Up!
Nearly 150 parties celebrated the release of GNOME 3.0 across the world. We asked people to send us their party photos so we would have a record of all the great release events that had been organized, and GNOME is offering a goodie pack for the best photograph. The photo competition wiki page contains all…
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GNOME 3.0 Has Arrived
After three years of planning and development, GNOME 3.0 is here. This new version of GNOME delivers an exciting new interface, major improvements under the hood, and enhanced applications. The GNOME release team’s official announcement congratulates and thanks the GNOME community for its hard work on the release: GNOME 3.0 would not have come to…
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GNOME 3.0 released: better for users, developers
Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today, the GNOME Desktop project released GNOME 3.0, its most significant redesign of the computer experience in nine years. A revolutionary new user interface and new features for developers make this a historic moment for the free and open source desktop. Within GNOME 3, GNOME Shell reimagines the user interface…
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April Fools! GNOME 3.0 Rescheduled for September 2011 Release
April 1 (April Fools’ Day), 2011 — BANGALORE, India — The GNOME Release Team met in India this week to discuss the state of GNOME 3. The Release Team came to a consensus opinion that one more cycle will be required before GNOME 3.0 is ready to be released. The decision was communicated to and…
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Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women Internships
Application deadline: April 8, 2011 Program dates: May 23 – August 22, 2011 GNOME is one of many Free Software projects participating in Google Summer of Code this year. Because in the past GNOME had few women applying for Google Summer of Code, we’ve organized Outreach Program for Women internships to engage more women with…