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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!

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 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.

Photo by Teemu Mäntynen CC BY-NC 2.0

Call for Proposals to Host GNOME.Asia Summit 2019

The GNOME.Asia Committee is inviting interested parties to submit proposals for hosting the GNOME.Asia Summit during the second half of 2019.

GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME Conference in Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covers applications and the development platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, contributors, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss the current technology and future developments.

Over the last eleven years, GNOME.Asia Summit has been held in many cities throughout Asia, including Beijing, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Taipei, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Depok, New Delhi, and Chongqing.

The Committee’s preference is to find a new location each year in order to spread GNOME throughout Asia, and we are looking for local organizers to rise to the challenge of organizing an excellent GNOME event. The GNOME.Asia committee will assist in the process, but there is a definitive need for individuals to be actively involved and committed to the planning and execution of the event.

How to Submit a Proposal:

Interested parties are hereby invited to submit a formal proposal to the GNOME.Asia Committee. The deadline for the proposals is February 24, 2019. Please email your proposal to gnome-asia-committee-list@gnome.org.

We might invite you to present your proposal in more details over our regular IRC meetings, or send you additional questions and requests. Results will be announced by the first week of April 2019.

The conference might require availability of facilities for 3-5 days, including a weekend, during the second half of 2019. Final event dates should avoid other key free software conferences or other events that may conflict.

The key points that should be included in the proposal, and which will be used to decide among candidates, are.

Local community support for hosting the conference.

Venue details. Information about infrastructure and facilities to hold the conference should be provided.

Preliminary schedule with main program & different activities.

Information about how Internet connectivity will be managed.

Lodging choices ranging from affordable housing to nicer hotels, and information about distances between the venue and lodging options.

The availability of restaurants or the organization of catering on-site, cost of food/soft drinks/beer.

The availability and cost of travel from major Asian and European cities.

Local industries, universities and government support.

Please provide a reasonably detailed budget (sponsorships, expenses, etc).

Provide plans for local sponsorship.

Provide plans to encourage student and youth participation.

Below, we have included resources for people interested in submitting a proposal. Please do not hesitate to contact the GNOME.Asia committee with any questions at gnome-asia-committee-list@gnome org.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!

– GNOME.Asia Committee

Resources for Interested GNOME.Asia 2019 Organizers:

[1] Wiki about GNOME Asia: http://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia
[2] Check list: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/SummitCheckList
[3] HowTo’s: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/HowToOrganizeGNOME.Asia%20Summit
[4] GNOME Foundation conference requirements: https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Conferences
[5] Sample winning proposal: http://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/Bids?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Proposal_of_HongKong_GNOME_Asia_Hackfest_2012_20120124.pdf

Please help us spread the word! If you haven’t already, please follow us on Twitter: @gnome_asia and @gnome, and on Facebook.

GNOME.Asia 2018 and COSCUP, openSUSE.Asia launch co-host press conference in Taipei

Since its founding in 2006, COSCUP (Conference for Open Source, Coders, Users and Promoters) has been the leading promoter of open source and innovation in Taiwan. GNOME.Asia 2018 will co-host with COSCUP and openSUSE.Asia in Taipei!

We launched our Press Conference in Taipei Humble House Hotel on Aug 7, and honorably invited former Simon Chang San-Cheng (former Premier of Republic of China, Chairman of the Taiwan Mobile Foundation), Chen Hsien-Li (CEO of Breaktime Inc), Wu Han-Chang (CEO of Asus Cloud Corporation).

We are grateful to have such honored guest represent and share their passion for open source. We want to break down the misconception that only engineers/developers can benefit from the open source community. Our hope is to share the open knowledge and community that COSCUP has to offer to all fields of discipline.

COSCUP is the largest open source event in Asia that will soon take place on August 11-12, 2018 at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. To top it off, this year we are fortunate to have GNOME.Asia and openSUSE.Asia help kickoff our event.

The mission of COSCUP is to create an open source community that promotes the sharing of knowledge and code amongst users and developers. We are a group of volunteers passionate about sharing the idea of open source to others. Only with this sort of commitment, is COSCUP able to continue on for 13 straight years.

We started in Taipei and our hope is to connect users and developers from all over the world, putting Taiwan on the map as an important distributor of open code.

As for our partners, GNOME.Asia is currently the world’s most popular open source user interface. The GNOME Foundation in Asia was first established in 2008, and shares our passion for open source software.

The openSUSE Asia Conference is an important event in the open source community that promotes the use and application of the highly popular operating system, Linux. This is the 5th year that the openSUSE Asia conference was held in Beijing. Every year, they invite participants from around the world to share open source knowledge and experience to users and developers alike.

Thus, we are excited to have both GNOME.Asia and openSUSE Asia attend this years’ 2018 COSCUP event.

2017 was the first year we invited honored speakers to come to speak at COSCUP by sharing their open source story and experiences. Fast forward to 2018, COSCUP took on the challenge to invite Mr. Simon Chang San-Cheng, chairman of Taiwan Mobile Foundation, and Mr. Chen Hsien-Li, executive of Breaktime Inc., and Mr. Wu Han-Chang, director of Asus Cloud Corporation, to represent the 2018 COSCUP press conference leading up to our main event.

The press conference is an opportunity to showcase the 13 – year journey of COSCUP, and also invite speakers to share how greater society can benefit from an open source community.

Our open source representative, Mr. Simon Chang shares what it means to have the “open source spirit” and applications that are not exclusive to software development. He mentions an example of open source farming that takes place in Hualien, and touches upon the potential and opportunities of open source.

Further, Executive, Chen Hsien-Li shares how he benefited from open source with his teaching background.

Director Wu claims that ,” from the use of Linux to EeePC 10 years ago, the market has been well received. In recent years, the development of the Asus cloud platform has used a large number of Open Sources. Asus has always been a loyal supporter of Open Source; Open Source is a very important platform for connecting developers, through sharing, feedback and Solving problems allows technology to progress faster and lays a good foundation for Taiwan’s system software.”

Finally, we will have a ceremonial breaking of the ice to represent our desire to reach out to other industries and not be limited to engineers/developers. We hope to share the value of open source to all areas in the world. We firmly believe that the values of open source will contribute to the greater good in the world. While the concept of open source may have started from programming, the open source spirit is surely not limited to it.

This Article is translated from Chinese, if you want to read original newsletter, please refer to:

正體中文：Tradiational Chinese https://openingsource.org/3180/zh-tw/
简体中文：Simplified Chinese https://openingsource.org/3180/

GUADEC 2018 concludes

After a few intensive days GUADEC 2018 concluded in Almeria, Spain. GUADEC 2018 included many talks, a lot of fun, intensive hacking and discussions.

The foundation wants to thank the participants, the organizers and sponsors all who helped make the conference possible. The results of the conference is expected to greatly benefit the foundation going forward.

*GUADEC 2018 group photo – “A great time in Almeria Spain”*

Photo: CC BY-SA 2.0 by Guille Fuertes (guillefuertes)

GUADEC 2018 has started in Almeria Spain

GUADEC, the largest annual gathering of GNOME users and developers, has now started in the lovely city of Almería, Spain.

GUADEC 2018 will feature talks on a wide range of subjects relevant to GNOME. In addition to the talks, hackfests, workshops, and birds of a feather (BOF’s) sessions will follow after the core conference days. Community members will come together and hack on projects relevant to GNOME. Specific info regarding the BoFs and Hackfest sessions is available on the GNOME wiki.

There will also be a lot of fun with a range of social activities planned. Detailed info about GUADEC 2018 including schedule and venue locations is available on the GUADEC website.

The Foundation thanks all the sponsors and volunteers who make GUADEC possible!

GNOME collaboration with Mozilla OSSN

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Mozilla Open Source Student Network (OSSN) on a pilot program that aims to bridge the divide between university students and Open Source Software projects.

This program seeks to identify and correct what have historically been the major barriers to engagement within the university student population. With this collaboration, we are building new ways for students to discover where opportunities and needs exist in the Open Source Software community, and to ease their path towards code contribution.

“With this opportunity, we hope to link students with Open Source projects, where they can gain real-world experience, and contribute to software that is used by millions of people worldwide. I’m very excited to support this program, and look forward to welcoming new contributors to the world of Open Source software,” said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.

From June to October 2018, the GNOME Foundation, as well as other partnering projects and organizations, will be providing university students with the opportunity to work with our experienced mentors to contribute their work to a variety of GNOME projects. At the same time, students will be growing their skills in C, Python, and JavaScript, while learning effective and efficient programming and collaborative conventions.

Furthermore, throughout the program students will be helping us glean important insights from their experiences, which will be used to refine and improve the experience of new contributors. As Christos Bacharakis, Project Manager Open Source Student Network, Mozilla, says: “With OSSN Mozilla is building a network that makes it easy for students to learn about and contribute to Open Source but also for us to understand the needs, challenges and maybe reservations of this next generation of open innovators. With a broad set of diverse and inspiring projects for students to contribute to, the GNOME Foundation ideally complements our initiative and we’re thrilled about this new collaboration.”

If you are a student interested in contributing your time and code to Open Source Software, we cordially invite you to join us! No prior experience is needed, just bring your excitement and passion and we’ll do the rest. Please sign up here.

If you are interested in knowing more about the approaches we are taking for this pilot project, please visit this page.

Registration to GUADEC 2018 is now open

The GUADEC organizers are pleased to announce that the registration for GUADEC 2018 is now open.

GUADEC is the the largest annual gathering of GNOME developers and community members and will take place this year in Almería, Spain between July 6 – July 11. If you are planning to attend please register as soon as possible.

Parties with an interest in GNOME are strongly encouraged to attend. Travel and accommodation information is available on the GUADEC website.

We hope to see you in Spain!

Please follow GUADEC on Twitter for frequent updates about the conference.
A complete conference program is expected to be published soon.