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GNOME Foundation Elections

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:27:06 -0400

The GNOME Foundation 2009 elections will begin next week.

With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors.

Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the 27th of May.

A 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.

Before 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 Foundation website to learn more about the role of the GNOME Foundation and its Board of Directors.

GNOME foundation needs your vote for Board elections 2009

Sat, 16 May 2009 09:36:05 -0400

Oyez, oyez, oyez dear GNOME foundation members!

As you should know, the GNOME foundation is run by a board of 7 directors known as "The Board". After 18 months of active duty, it's now time to refresh either the blood or our confidence. Which means :

GNOME Board Elections 2009

May 22th : deadline to apply as a candidate
May 22th-25th : send your questions for the candidates
June 3rd-17th : Voting period
July 3rd : old and new board meet at GUADEC

Do 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!

Interview with Edward Hervey about the PiTiVI video editor

Fri, 08 May 2009 05:27:33 -0400

This is the fourth in a series of interviews about open source multimedia, the previous interviews were about Jokosher, Totem and
Empathy. For this interview we talk with Edward Hervey who is the maintainer of the PiTiVI video editor. Edward will talk to us about the current status of the PiTiVi video editor and their plans going forward.

GNOME Journal, May 2009, Released!

Tue, 05 May 2009 12:27:09 -0400

After 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.

Read now: http://www.gnomejournal.org

Planning for GNOME 3.0

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:04:11 -0400

From GNOME mailing lists.....

During the first few months of 2008, a few Release Team members
discussed here and there about the state of GNOME. This was nothing
official, and it could actually have been considered as some friends
talking together about things they deeply care about. There were
thoughts that GNOME could stay with the 2.x branch for a very long time
given our solid development methods, but that it was not the future that
our community wants to see happening. Because of lack of excitement.
Because of lack of vision. Slowly, a plan started to emerge. It evolved,
changed, was trimmed a bit, made more solid. We started discussing with
a few more people, got more feedback. And then, at GUADEC, the Release
Team proposed an initial plan to the community that would lead the
project to GNOME 3.0. Quite some time passed; actually, too much time
passed because too many people were busy with other things. But it's
never too late to do the right thing, so let's really be serious about
GNOME 3.0 now!

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.26!

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:47:59 -0500

The GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.26, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment
and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME
2.26 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to
offer the best experience to users and developers.

For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.26, which is probably the
best compliment the project can receive.

This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world:
hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists,
translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and
testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks very
much to every one of them!

You'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.26 in our release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/

New Friends of GNOME program launched!

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:16:21 -0500

We 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.

Interview with Sjoerd Simons of Empathy

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:40:51 -0500

This is the third in a series of interviews about open source multimedia, the previous interviews were about Jokosher and Totem. For this interview we check in with Sjoerd Simons who works on the Empathy client, an which combines instant messaging, video conferencing and voice over IP into one application. Sjoerd will talk to us about the current status of Empathy and where it is going.

Review: Open-Source Office Suites Compared

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:41:32 -0500

In this review I've taken a look at OpenOffice.org's most recent release, along with the commercially-supported StarOffice from Sun,IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s reworking of OO.o as Lotus Symphony, the KOffice suite for Linux, and the minimal but still useful AbiWord. Talking about how these would entirely replace Microsoft Office would be misleading, since not everyone might be doing that -- so I've looked at each product as far on its own merits as possible.

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Collection of 50 Best Looking Gnome Themes

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:41:43 -0500

I recently installed new version of linux (Ubuntu Intrepid ibex) on my secondary computer and i wanted to customize it like i am used to customize windows. I tried a lot of gnome themes and found many beautiful and elegant looking themes which enhance your desktop with different colors, corners, buttons and scroll bar styles. I filtered some of the best looking gnome themes to share on TechieSouls. After downloading themes you have to install them, the following screenshot will guide you how to install theme in ubuntu and gnome interface. Install apply and enjoy

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Interview with Totem maintainer Bastien Nocera

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:36:22 -0500

This is the second in a series of of interviews about Linux Multimedia. The previous interview was with Laszlo Pandy about Jokosher. This time we check in with Bastien Nocera of the Totem media player. In addition to Totem Bastien has worked on range of multimedia related projects and is someone who knows the challenges of multimedia from a range of different angles. In this interview we talk about his work on Totem and the other major contributions he has done to free software multimedia and where he sees things heading from here.

Announcing the first public release of project GSQL version 0.2.0

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:28:59 -0500

GSQL is an integrated database development environment for GNOME.
It is designed to support multiple database engines, so far MySQL and
Oracle are supported.

This release introduces:

SQL editor
PL /SQL editor (in triggers, functions, procedures and packages)
accessible in Oracle engine.
tree-like database object navigation
using standard notification service for pop up messages. E. g.
in case of inactivity user will be notified on query completion
create and connect to a duplicate session with parameters copied
from the active session, all in one click

Interview with Jokosher maintainer Laszlo Pandy

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:17:35 -0500

In this first in what I hope will be a series of interviews about linux multimedia I talk with Laszlo Pandy, the leading force behind audio editing application Jokosher. In addition to talking about Jokosher itself and Laszlo's involvement we also will talk about the general state of Linux multimedia.

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24!

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:32:47 -0400

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop
environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the
day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months
releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.

For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.24, which is probably the
best compliment the project can receive.

You'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.24 in our release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/

GNOME 2.23.5 Development Release

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:30:02 -0400

Here's the first release after GUADEC. Istanbul. It was a great place.
And some people actually had time to visit the beautiful city. Or to
take a turkish bath. Sounds like a cool program, doesn't it? Of course,
it was not only about this -- there were tons of interesting
discussions, lots of sessions around various topics, etc. But you know
what? The GNOME contributors actually managed to continue hacking on
their modules. Amazing. Those people never stop. I guess it shows how
passionate they are! So they made changes that are now visible in this
latest version of GNOME. And if you look closely, you can feel some
turkish love in the air around this release! Cool stuff.