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Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas
pGNOME's Google Summer of Code Admins are a href=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-March/msg00040.htmllooking for a few good ideas/a. In case you missed it, here's the post from Ruben Vermeersch that went out to devel-announce and foundation-announce:/p
blockquotepIt's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of a href=http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010preparing it all/a but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 29, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of projects from them to chose from and have mentors ready to volunteer their time./p
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Debian/GNOME Bug Weekend Approaches
pThe Debian Project is a href=http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/02/msg00005.htmlseeking a few GNOME lovers/a to help with a massive cleanup in the insane amount of bugs submitted against GNOME packages. The Debian/GNOME Bug Weekend will be the last weekend of February, on the #debian-gnome channel on OFTC./p
pFrom the email to debian-devel-announce:/p
blockquotep
You don’t need any special skills. Just join #debian-gnome on the OFTCbr /
IRC network, and we’ll provide all the guidance you need./p
pUltimately, the goal is to have, at the end of that week-end, all bugsbr /
against GNOME packages in one of those states:br /
* closedbr /
* forwarded upstreambr /
* having a fix ready to uploadbr /
* waiting for more information from the submitter
/p/blockquote
pAgain, the Debian/GNOME bug weekend takes place on February 27 and 28. If you have some free time, you can help Debian and GNOME!/p
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GNOME 2.30 Beta (2.29.90) is Available
pThe first beta release (2.29.90) towards GNOME 2.30 has hit the streets. This release is the beginning of the user interface (UI) freeze. Note that this release is not yet ready for production use, but is suitable for developers and testers who are working towards 2.30./p
pThe full schedule is available on a href=http://live.gnome.org/ScheduleGNOME.org/a. The next beta is schedule for February 22. The a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.devel.announce/81release announcement/a has pointers to the tarballs for 2.29.90./p
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GNOME Journal 18 Released
pThe latest a href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/GNOME Journal/a has hit the streets. Issue 18, published on February 5, is a special edition focusing on multimedia, and a wrap-up of the GNOME Boston Summit by Jason Clinton. Four articles are by first time GNOME Journal contributors! /p
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lia href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/79/pitiviPitivi/a by Jono Baco/li
lia href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/91/whats-new-with-bansheeWhat's new in Banshee/a by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier/li
lia href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/89/gnome-boston-summit-2009Boston Summit Recap/a by Jason Clinton/li
lia href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/90/interview-with-jonathan-thomas-creator-of-the-openshot-video-editorAn interview with Jonathan Thomas/a, creator of the OpenShot video editor by Paul Cutler/li
lia href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/80/writing-multimedia-applications-with-valaWriting Multimedia Applications in Vala/a by Jim Nelson/li
/ul
pThe latest GNOME Journal was edited by Sumana Harihareswara, Jim Hodapp, and Stormy Peters. /p
pWant to keep up to date on GNOME Journal? Follow @gnomejournal on a href=http://identi.ca/gnomejournalIdenti.ca/a and/or a href=http://twitter.com/gnomejournalTwitter/a. The GNOME Journal team is always looking for a href=http://www.gnomejournal.org/contribute/contributions/a!/p
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Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts
pBOSTON, Mass — February 4, 2010 — The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce a substantial donation from the Mozilla Corporation to benefit the GNOME Project's accessibility efforts. The donation will help continue the collaborative efforts between GNOME and Mozilla on Accessibility./p
pThe Mozilla Corporation is granting the GNOME Foundation $10,000 for 2010. The funds will be used in part to send GNOME developers to the 25th Annual International CSUN Technology amp; Persons with Disabilities Conference. The CSUN Conference is one of the premier technology conferences for people with disabilities, and by holding a GNOME accessibility hackfest at the conference, GNOME can ensure a diverse group of GNOME developers are immersed in the accessibility space with direct hands-on interaction with end users./p
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dropline GNOME seeks devs.
pHi , as you can see from the post on the main web page of the a href=http://www.droplinegnome.orgproject/a, we are looking for people who can help us with the development and creation of our project. In the last times many people from the team has left because of various personal reasons and life stuff, and because of this we are looking for skilled people who can have the ambition to keep up the previous good work of all the team and of course the desktop we like./p
pFor all of you who don't know the project, I can say that its a project whose aim is to bring to a href=http://www.slackware.comSlackware/a distribution the a href=http://www.gnome.orggnome/a desktop. Thats about it shortly./p
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GNOME SlackBuild 2.26.3 GNOME Desktop for Slackware and Slackware64 13.0
pThe GNOME Desktop is alive and well for Slackware! GNOME SlackBuild has released a stable 2.26.3 GNOME desktop for the latest Slackware and Slackware64 13.0. See a href=http://www.gnomeslackbuild.orghttp://www.gnomeslackbuild.org/a for more information about what is offered, and how to download it for Slackware./p
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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Opens
pRobert Lefkowitz's Keynotebr /
Today the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has started, bringing KDE and Gnome developers together in the biggest conference of its type. It is situated on the beautiful Atlantic island of Gran Canaria and housed in the spectacular Albert Kraus Auditorium which dominates the skyline of Las Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria. The conference was opened by a series of talks from various people in the Canaries local government and the organisation. After that the keynotes started with star speakers and impressive announcements including an Open PC developed by the community. Read on for an impression of the GCDS!/p
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GNOME Foundation Elections
pThe GNOME Foundation 2009 elections will begin next week./p
pWith the a href=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-May/msg00037.htmlfinal list of candidates/a announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. /p
pPlease send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the 27th of May./p
pA list of questions, including the best questions from this thread, will be put to the candidates on the public Foundation mailing list. Feel free to participate in the debate./p
pBefore asking your questions, please keep in mind that the GNOME Foundation is not a technical entity and the Board of Directors do not participate directly in the technical decisions of the developer community. See the a href=http://foundation.gnome.org/Foundation website/a to learn more about the role of the GNOME Foundation and its Board of Directors./p
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GNOME foundation needs your vote for Board elections 2009
pOyez, oyez, oyez dear GNOME foundation members!/p
pAs you should know, the GNOME foundation is run by a board of 7 directors known as a href=http://foundation.gnome.org/about/The Board/a. After 18 months of active duty, it's now time to refresh either the blood or our confidence. Which means :/p
p bGNOME Board Elections 2009/b/p
p May 22th : deadline to apply as a candidatebr /
May 22th-25th : send your questions for the candidatesbr /
June 3rd-17th : Voting periodbr /
July 3rd : old and new board meet at GUADEC/p
pDo you want to be empowered by the community? Do you like the smell of burnoutized brain in the morning? Do you want to be part of the board that will achieve ultimate GNOME world domination? Then you can be a candidate too!/p
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Interview with Edward Hervey about the PiTiVI video editor
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This is the fourth in a series of interviews about open source multimedia, the previous interviews were about a href=http://gnomedesktop.org/node/4067Jokosher/a, a href=http://gnomedesktop.org/node/4069Totem/a andbr /
a href=http://gnomedesktop.org/node/4072Empathy/a. For this interview we talk with a href=http://blogs.gnome.org/portal/edwardrvEdward Hervey/a who is the maintainer of the a href=http://www.pitivi.orgPiTiVI/a video editor. Edward will talk to us about the current status of the PiTiVi video editor and their plans going forward.
/p
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GNOME Journal, May 2009, Released!
pAfter an extended break, the latest issue of the GNOME Journal has been published. It features an interview with Stormy Peters, the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation by Jayson Rowe, a review of the Gourmet Recipe Manager application by Sriram Ramkrishna, a look at the GConf Configuation System for developers by Natan Yellin, an Introduction to the Message Indicator for developers by Ken VanDine, and a letter from our editor, Jim Hodapp./p
pRead now: a href=http://www.gnomejournal.orghttp://www.gnomejournal.org/a/p
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Planning for GNOME 3.0
pFrom GNOME mailing lists...../p
pDuring the first few months of 2008, a few Release Team membersbr /
discussed here and there about the state of GNOME. This was nothingbr /
official, and it could actually have been considered as some friendsbr /
talking together about things they deeply care about. There werebr /
thoughts that GNOME could stay with the 2.x branch for a very long timebr /
given our solid development methods, but that it was not the future thatbr /
our community wants to see happening. Because of lack of excitement.br /
Because of lack of vision. Slowly, a plan started to emerge. It evolved,br /
changed, was trimmed a bit, made more solid. We started discussing withbr /
a few more people, got more feedback. And then, at GUADEC, the Releasebr /
Team proposed an initial plan to the community that would lead thebr /
project to GNOME 3.0. Quite some time passed; actually, too much timebr /
passed because too many people were busy with other things. But it'sbr /
never too late to do the right thing, so let's really be serious aboutbr /
GNOME 3.0 now!/p
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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.26!
pThe GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.26, thebr /
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environmentbr /
and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOMEbr /
2.26 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases tobr /
offer the best experience to users and developers./p
pFor more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendousbr /
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previousbr /
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.26, which is probably thebr /
best compliment the project can receive./p
pThis six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the wholebr /
GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world:br /
hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists,br /
translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users andbr /
testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks verybr /
much to every one of them!/p
pYou'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.26 in our release notes:/p
p a rel=nofollow href=http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26//a/p
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New Friends of GNOME program launched!
pWe are excited to tell you that today we launch our new Friends of GNOME program. Now supporters can sign up to help the GNOME Foundation with recurring $10/month donations./p
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