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Linux App Summit 2023 to be held in Brno

We’re happy to announce that Linux App Summit 2023 will take place in Brno, Czech Republic on April 21–23, 2023. For 2023 Linux App Summit (LAS) will again be held as a hybrid event, allowing attendees and speakers to join virtually or in person at our venue in Brno.

Linux App Summit (LAS) 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.

Everyone is invited to attend! Companies, journalists, and individuals who are interested in learning more about the Linux desktop application space and growing their user base are especially welcome. The call for papers and registration will be open soon. Please check linuxappsummit.org for more updates in the upcoming weeks.

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About Brno

Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, is a technological hub in Central Europe and the wider region. Several universities specializing in Information Technology give Brno a large source of IT talent and as a result, many companies have opened research and development facilities in the city. With around 90,000 students residing in the area, Brno is a vibrant university city and home to many museums, theatres, festivals, and cultural events. It is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and in 2017 was designated as a “City of Music“. Alongside the urban areas, visitors will find traditional Moravian folklore preserved in some districts and can experience traditional Moravian costumes, wines, folk music, and dance.

There are lots of sights to see in Brno! Some of the most popular attractions are:

  • Špilberk Castle
  • Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul
  • Veveří Castle
  • Villa Tugendhat

We hope to see you in Brno!*The image attribution: SchiDD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About the Linux App Summit

The Linux App Summit is co-organized by KDE and GNOME. It brings the global Linux community together to learn, collaborate, and help grow the Linux application ecosystem. Through talks, panels, and Q&A sessions, we encourage attendees to share ideas, make connections, and join our goal of building a common app ecosystem.

Previous iterations of the Linux App Summit have been held in the United States in Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado, as well as in Barcelona, Spain, and Rovereto, Italy. Learn more by visiting linuxappsummit.org.

Giving Tuesday kicks off GNOME’s end-of-year fundraising

With hundreds of contributors all over the world working on GNOME projects, we’re doing what we can to move the project forward! But we still need help. Our organization is a 501(c)3 (in the United States) and relies on financial contributions in order to keep the lights on. Your financial support goes towards GNOME conferences, intern sponsors, new releases, staff resources, infrastructure, and so much more!  We are excited about the future of the GNOME project and ask for your support with a donation during our annual fundraising campaign. 

Giving Tuesday also marks Day 1 of our annual campaign drive which continues till the end of the year! And, we need your help reaching our goal. While a financial contribution helps, we know there are many ways to help support our fundraising. We’ve included some non-financial ways you can help:

  • Share or repost GNOME social media messages. Help us get the message out!
  • Make a donation request on behalf of GNOME! Ask friends and family to contribute to an organization that is important to you. Remember to share why GNOME is important to you. Start your own campaign today: https://www.gnome.org/donate/
  • Use the upcoming holidays to ask for contributions in lieu of presents. This is a great thing to do for birthdays and the upcoming holiday season! https://www.gnome.org/donate/
  • Take advantage of your company match program. Many organizations will match your donation – make sure you are taking advantage of all the ways you can donate!

We are excited for 2023 and hope we can count on your support during Giving Tuesday and our annual campaign drive. Help us build another great year at GNOME!

Thank you from all of us at the GNOME Foundation.

About Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is a global day of generosity that takes place today, November 30, 2021. It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

Learn more at https://www.givingtuesday.org/

GNOME Moves IRC Traffic to Libera Chat

As the GNOME community has moved further towards becoming Matrix-first, our legacy IRC chat systems have begun to show their age. Migrating to Libera Chat allows us to maintain IRC operations on a well-maintained and thriving platform, while also bringing the Matrix interoperability to the next level.

The shift to Libera Chat went live today. What does this mean for you? Community members already using Matrix will not notice any change, if you’re a GIMPnet user you may experience some alias changes to chat channels. Channels that have had alias changes will need to be rejoined manually. For channels with the same alias the change to Libera Chat will be transparent. For more details on what this move means for you and a deeper explanation on why we’ve moved, please see the Discourse announcement from Foundation Board member Thibault Martin.

GIMPNet has provided our community and countless others with a remarkable communications platform these past decades. It is with great appreciation that we thank the GIMPNet maintainers and moderators for their hard work and dedication to promoting open source collaboration.

GNOME.Asia 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We’re happy to share that GNOME.Asia 2022 will return in person in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This year’s summit will be held as a hybrid event on Dec 2-4, and attendees will be able to join virtually or in person at our venue in Kuala Lumpur. Registration for this free event is open and attendees can sign up on our event website.

Malaysia was selected as our summit location in 2020, but the conference shifted to fully remote due to the global pandemic. We’re grateful to our local team for sticking with us for two years of virtual summits and excited to finally bring GNOME.Asia to Malaysia!

More details and a full event schedule will be added to our event website soon. Please check events.gnome.org/e/asia2022 for more updates in the upcoming weeks.

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About Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is a cultural, financial, and economic center. As the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur is home to both the Parliament of Malaysia and the Istana Negara—the official residence of the monarch of Malaysia, Yang di-Pertuan Agong. The city is one of the fastest growing in Asia and has experienced massive growth since the 90’s making it one of the leading cities in the world for tourism and shopping.

Our GNOME.Asia 2022 venue is in the beautiful neighborhood of Taman Tun Dr Ismail. iSpace, a boutique venue specializing in meeting rooms and unique event spaces, is conveniently located within walking distance of public transit.

Images of Kuala Lumpur

About GNOME.Asia

GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop but also covers applications and 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.

About GNOME

GNOME is a free and open-source software environment project supported by a non-profit foundation. Together, the community of contributors and the Foundation create a computing platform and software ecosystem, composed entirely of free software, that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.

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GNOME.Asia 2022 Call for Participation Opens

GNOME.Asia Summit 2022 invites you to participate as a speaker! Join us for this year’s conference on December 2nd-4th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by submitting your abstract.

GNOME.Asia is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia and focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, applications, and 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 current technology and future developments. Possible talk topics are suggested below, but topics are not limited to this list.

Suggested Topics

  • Contributing to GNOME
  • UI design
  • Accessibility
  • Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
  • Marketing/Engagement
  • Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open hardware
  • Contributing to Linux and FLOSS
  • Linux kernel and development
  • The development and promotion of open-source operating systems
  • Distributions, including Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD
  • The development and promotion of other open source projects
  • We are also interested in other topics related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software that is not listed above.

Sessions will be scheduled for 30 or 50 minutes (Q&A included). The session could be a technical or non-technical talk, panel discussion, workshop, or Birds of a Feather session (BoF). If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch with the organizing team by emailing asia@gnome.org.

NOTE: This year all speakers requiring travel sponsorship by GNOME Foundation should apply at the same time as submitting their CfP. Both Call for Participation submissions and Travel Sponsorship requests are due by October 10th.

Submission Criteria

Submission deadline: October 10, 2022.

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Introducing GNOME 43

The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 43, ‘Guadalajara’.

This release brings a completely redesigned system settings menu which allows quickly changing common settings, including switching between Light and Dark mode. The new Device Security page provides information about the security of your physical hardware and firmware. Many of the core applications have been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita and received improvements in the process, such as Files, Maps, Builder and many others.

To learn more about the changes in GNOME 43, see the full release notes.

GNOME 43 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want to try it today, you can look for the imminent Fedora 37 beta release or the openSUSE nightly live images which both include GNOME 43. gnome.org/getting-gnome

We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes with UEFI support. We suggest getting Boxes from flathub. os.gnome.org

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 43, look for the GNOME 43 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org repository.

This six-month effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators, companies, artists, testers, the local GUADEC team in Guadalajara, and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

We hope to see some of you at GNOME Asia 2022 in Malaysia – now accepting talk submissions! Our next release, GNOME 44, is planned for March 2023. Until then, enjoy GNOME 43.

Join the Celebration

Celebrate the release of GNOME 43 with a local release party! If you’re planning to host a gathering and want to share it with the community add it to our wiki page. Want to make an even bigger splash? Combine your party with a 25th Anniversary party!

Support GNOME

To get involved, please visit gnome.org/get-involved/, and to help support GNOME in producing a free and easy-to-use desktop, visit gnome.org/donate/.

GNOME Turns 25

We’re excited to celebrate our 25th birthday today! Thanks to our founders Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero for starting GNOME and thanks to all our contributors and supporters over the last 25 years.  We could never have gotten to GNOME 42 without your help!  

What began as a two-person project in 1997 has come a long way! We’ve updated our Anniversary website, originally created by an Engagement Team member for our 20th birthday, with a new look, new details, and more photos. Look back at our history and see where 25 years of progress have taken us! Visit https://happybirthdaygnome.org/.

Join our celebration! There are a number of ways you can celebrate with us: follow us on Twitter or Mastodon to join the conversation and share a happy birthday photo, grab a 25th-anniversary tee from the GNOME Shop, or make a donation!

Visit our anniversary website

Application open for GNOME Foundation Executive Director

The GNOME Foundation is looking for qualified candidates for the position of Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. We are looking for an individual with existing experience in the wider nonprofit community, ideally with prior experience establishing and raising funds for programs that deliver impact through technology. Working closely with the existing members, contributors, volunteers, and the wider GNOME community, and managing our relationships with the Advisory Board and other key Free and Open Source Software partners, we hope to find a candidate that can build public awareness and help people learn about, use, and benefit from what GNOME has built over the past two and a half decades.

The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that believes in a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. We do this by building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem. The GNOME community is an influential social and technical contributor to the Free Software and Open Source software stack that continues to leave its mark on every piece of hardware that runs Linux across all technical market segments.

As Executive Director for the GNOME Foundation, you will assume both strategic and execution responsibility for our organization. You have a passion for using your strategic skills to make a difference within the technology space. You will play a key role in identifying and building partnership networks and relationships for strategic gain. You are powerfully skilled in steering innovative thinking, to develop strategy, to facilitate change and impact. You lead with empathy and can effectively connect and collaborate both with team members internally from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, and with partners in the wider for-profit and nonprofit ecosystem who are essential for achieving our goals. You are comfortable with technology, and ideally familiar with Open Source or other collaborative Open Culture organizations and values, giving you a solid basis to understand and work with our project and community to achieve real impact in the programs you are responsible for.

For more details, please see the full Job Description. Please apply via e-mail with a covering letter and a resume to careers+executive-director@gnome.org by the 29th of August.

GNOME Chat Moves to Matrix

We’re happy to announce that GNOME Chat has officially moved to Matrix. This move comes as a result of our chat evaluation initiative, launched in February of 2021 to help solve the fragmentation in our chat communications. During the course of that initiative, we collected feedback from our community about which chat platform they were most comfortable on, features they needed to help their team communications, and which instant messaging system they preferred to use for their work with GNOME. Our survey results showed the majority of community members used mainly Matrix and IRC and overall had positive opinions and a willingness to move to Matrix over any other platform.

To learn more about our survey results take a look at this blog post from Foundation Board member Thibault Martin, in which he breaks down answers and outcomes in more detail.

Our main goals for a unified GNOME Chat platform are to create a space where our community can work together, can communicate across all teams with ease, and provide a low barrier of entry and a welcoming environment to newcomers. After hearing from our community we believe that the best solution is Matrix and an IRC Bridge.

We’re already up and running! Through our GNOME Matrix instance, you can now explore many chat rooms and find different groups based on your interest or team. Join us on chat through any Matrix platform of your choice: https://matrix.to/#/#community:gnome.org.

GUADEC 2022 Registration is Open!

We’re pleased to announce that Registration for GUADEC 2022 is now open!

GUADEC is the largest annual gathering of GNOME developers and community members. This year’s edition will be a hybrid event, taking place from July 20th-25th in-person in Guadalajara, Mexico with living streaming for those who wish to attend remotely.

If you are planning to attend either in person or remotely please register on guadec.org. 

This year is particularly special for the GNOME community as it marks the 25th anniversary of GNOME and this year’s conference marks our return to in-person events as well as our first GUADEC in North America. In honor of this special occasion, we’ll be holding an anniversary celebration during GUADEC and are scheduling some great social events and day trips!

Please follow GUADEC on Twitter or GNOME on Mastodon, Twitter, or LinkedIn for frequent updates about the conference, and reach out to guadec@gnome.org with any questions.

We expect to publish the complete program for the conference soon. If you or your company are interested in becoming a sponsor for GUADEC 2022 please take a look at our sponsor brochure, and reach out to sponsors@guadec.org for more information.

Hope to see you in Mexico!

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