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.
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:
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.
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
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.
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.
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/
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.
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!
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.
