Now that the final results of the GNOME Foundation’s Board of Directors Elections were published, it’s a good time to thank everyone who voted in me. I’m really surprised about the number of votes I got! Be sure that I’ll give my best.
I think we’ve got a very good team on Board and I’m very excited about our 2008 plans. We’ve already started to work on some really cool things!
The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published! It features a review of Foundations of GTK+ Development book, an interview with Daniel G. Siegel about Cheese, and an interview with Amy de Groff about Maryland Library’s switch to Linux. Writers in this edition are Davyd Madeley, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Ian McIntosh, respectively.
Big thanks to the editors of this edition: Jim Hodapp, Paul Cutler, and Stephanie Watson.
Read now: http://www.gnomejournal.org
The GNOME Roadmap for 2.22 (and partially for 2.24 and future 2.x releases) is available at:
The GNOME Roadmap is a big-picture view of functionality we expect GNOME to include in short-term and long-term future. The roadmap is based on feedback from current GNOME developers and other community members.
We hope this roadmap increases the awereness about the future steps of the project inside and outside the community and helps us to look forward and plan where we want to go.
To have access to the Roadmap of previous stable releases, go to:
http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Archive
To know more about our Roadmap process, go to:
http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Process
Big thanks to everyone who contributed with information and reviews!
Just after GUADEC, I made some general comments about this whole “online desktop” idea that was nicely presented by Havoc and Bryan in Birmingham. My main argument is that we should not have a separate “online desktop mode” but try to turn our desktop into a web-aware environment.
Now that Empathy has been proposed for GNOME 2.22, I think it’s time to start thinking about interesting ways of integrating the instant messaging stuff and online desktop stack in the desktop (note that there’s no garantee that Empathy and online desktop will be accepted as official modules but, as a strong supported, I still think it makes sense to bring those ideas at this moment). In my opinion, we should take advantage of the fact that Empathy is a framework-ish aproach for instant messaging (not simply a standalone application) to bring a seamless integration of its features in the desktop environment.
So, I had this idea (that should be more detailed and discussed) of a possible (and feasible) way of integrating Empathy and online desktop stuff in the desktop: a People menu in main menu bar.
People menu mockup
Some general comments:
This is just an initial/rough idea with the aim of setting some kind of direction on how we could integrate instant messaging and online desktop in GNOME. There are still many things to discuss and decide.
Comments?
As other Nokians have already announced, the N810 was officialy announced! Some highlights from the Hildon side:
From my “user experience” with this device, I think the keyboard improves a lot the messaging and web browsing experience, the GPS is an excelent addition and the general UI polishing brings a smoother interaction with the device.
Last but not least, this is a device full of hacking possibilities! Yay!
As part of our roadmap process, we’ve sent the roadmap information requests to all module maintainers/developers. If you are a maintainer/developer of a GNOME official module and haven’t received the cited message, just let us know about which modules we’ve missed.
As usual, as soon as we have a first draft of the GNOME 2.22 roadmap, we’ll heat up some discussions in desktop-devel-list about this and the future stable releases of GNOME in order to get feeback about the roadmap, discuss about potential cross-module plans, and so on.
Fortunately, quite many modules have been proposed for GNOME 2.22 and some interesting and challenging discussions have already started in desktop-devel-list.
One of the major community goals for 2.22 is to have as many people as possible reminding Vincent Untz about his thesis! Go, Vincent, Go! :-P
GNOME Brasil, the brazilian GNOME users and developers group, now has a brand new and sexy collaborative website. It’s hosted on SoftwareLivre.org‘s TWiki server which bring us closer to the wider free software brazilian community.
Big thanks to:
And that’s not all! The 4th edition of our Fórum GNOME, the main GNOME event in Brazil, will take place in Aracaju/SE inside the 2nd Northeastern Free Software Conference from September 28th to 30th. Our website will be officialy released there! Special thanks to Izabel for organizing Fórum GNOME this year! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend the Fórum this year… I’m sure it will be a nice conference!
For all brazilian GNOMErs out there: go to Aracaju, have fun, and spread the word about our beloved desktop!
Wohoo! This is a really nice release! Thanks to…
It’s time to celebrate! Yay!
It’s time to start working on our 2007 annual report! Last year we had a very nice report. So, let’s make it even better this year! I’ve created a wiki page to organize the work.
Any kind of contribution is welcome! There are several ways to help:
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Annual Report Team (Silvia, Sayamindu and me).
This is the first stable release of Eye of GNOME (EOG) as part of the GNOME 2.20 major release. The 2.20 release is very special for EOG as it’s the first one with a complete rewrite/refactoring of its core. This means that GNOME now has a much improved image viewer. There lots of cool new features, we really hope you all enjoy! Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, specially to EOG’s team members, Claudio and Felix.
So, what’s new?
