To prepare for the new year, we at Yorba decided to make our office more inviting. Tired of the mess and the drab white walls, we tidied up the place and added some color.
The above photos show the process and the results of the office rejuvination.
Earlier this month, several of us Yorbans made a trek to Copenhagen for Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS.) It’s a beautiful city with lots to see. For the most part the weather behaved well and we were able to wander around and see the sites, albeit bundled up in three layers of jackets.
Here’s some photos we took in Copenhagen and at UDS.
Good afternoon, one and all,
We’re pleased to announce the release of Shotwell 0.13.1. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.
Among the fixes in this release:
A tarball of this release can be obtained from http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.13/shotwell-0.13.1.tar.xz, and Ubuntu users on Precise Pangolin can obtain a pre-built version from the Yorba PPA; users on Quantal Quetzal or other distributions should have access to pre-built binaries soon through the normal update mechanisms.
Again, thank you for your interest in Shotwell, and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know or mention them on our mailing list.
Yorba has just released Shotwell Thirteen,
And in so doing, has hopefully made
An already venerable product sheen,
And with the users, helped make the grade.
Among the fixes, enhancements plenty:
Now hide details from who shouldn’t see ’em,
Post photos to Tumblr, share them with many,
Visibly straighten’d, no need to degree ’em.
Thumbnails, once lost, return upon startup,
Picasa logins are more secure now.
Rework’d old dates helps you sort your art up
From early last cent’ry up to here/now.
There’s much more, yes, but for brevity’s sake
It’s unspoken here, and left to enjoy.
The code is now posted; please stop and take,
And for your images, Shotwell, employ.
Getting Shotwell:
* http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/ (tarball and instructions for building from source)
* https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa (Ubuntu Precise Pangolin PPA)
* Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal users should receive this through their OS vendor’s daily update mechanism shortly.
Nathan Willis at LWN.net has written a great article summarizing the keynote Adam Dingle and I gave at GUADEC, “Crowdfunding GNOME Application Development” (PDF slides are here). For those of you who missed the talk, Nathan’s précis gives a nice overview of our presentation and the questions afterwards. He also offers a concise explanation of today’s problems with funding open source development:
All open source software faces the same challenges when it comes to raising the money to keep developers at the keyboard. In recent years, Linux distributors have underwritten the development of desktop software through the sale of enterprise services and support contracts of various forms. Users have grown accustomed to that situation, and there is certainly nothing wrong with it, but Dingle and his colleagues at Yorba have shown that no one needs to accept that as the only viable funding model.
Read the whole thing here.
Now that we’re all back in San Francisco and relatively de-jetlagged, we pooled together some of our photos from our trip to A Coruña and the surrounding area.
All in all it was a fun experience, although there were a few only-in-Spain hickups (For example, who knew you could get locked IN to a building?) but the ridiculously cheap alcohol more than made up for that.
