Category: News

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 represent GNOME in its dealings with partner organizations. Their election is an annual event.

GNOME Foundation members have until May 22nd to propose their candidacy for election. Voting will take place between May 29th and June 12th.

The GNOME Foundation membership is made up of contributors to the GNOME Project. If you have made a contribution and have not yet applied for membership, you are encouraged to do so. The Foundation’s membership page contains more details.

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 features to be included in the next GNOME release. Those feature proposals can include proposals for new software modules to be added to GNOME.

Feature planning is a new part of GNOME’s software development schedule which was recently announced by the GNOME release team. The initiative reflects a commitment to delivering major improvements with each GNOME 3 release.

The new features being planned for 3.2 can be seen on the GNOME wiki. They include a new document browsing and search facility, an integrated contacts framework, new facilities for accessibility and color management, and more.

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 the details.

The deadline for the photo competition is 24:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th April. So, if you were at a 3.0 release party and took some great photos, remember to send them to us before then: you could win a great prize!

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 exist without the passion and incessant work of hundreds of people from our community, and without the support of our users. Thanks to the artists, bug triagers, designers, documentors, hackers, packagers, testers, translators and to everybody else who helped us reach this milestone!

You can read about all the changes in GNOME 3.0 in the release notes, and you can find out more about the background and reception to GNOME 3 in the official press release.

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 the project.Learn more about both programs and apply!

The recent GNOME t-shirt competition had an incredible response, with hundreds of people sending in designs for GNOME 3 t-shirts. It took a while for the judges to come to a decision, but now the winners have been announced. Congratulations to Sofie van Schadewijk, Vassilina Pljonkina and Weda Kusuma for taking first, second and third place! All three provided a stylish and original GNOME t-shirt design, each of which will be available to buy through the GNOME store.

For those organizing a GNOME 3.0 Launch Party, here is the good news: The GNOME Foundation will give away some goodies(t-shirts, balloons, stickers…) to support your events. Register now! Please help us spread the word and get a few launch parties in your area.

Happy GNOME 3.0 Release Party!