How will GNOME 3 compare to KDE 4? The picture is still emerging, since GNOME 3's official release is still months away. However, with GNOME Shell available as a preview in the latest GNOME releases, a general outline is starting to be visible.
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It could go either way.
After a week of using GNOME Shell, the preview of GNOME 3.0, on Fedora 13, that is the closest I can come to a prediction about how GNOME's new desktop will be received when it is officially released in the spring of 2011.
Berlin, 6th October, 2010 - The Desktop Summit is a co-located event which features the yearly contributor conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy. Next year the conference will take place from 6 to 12 August, 2011 in Berlin at the Humboldt University in Unter den Linden. The event will feature keynotes, talks, workshops and team building events.
One of the guiding goals for Gnome 3.0 is what Vincent Untz, Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation, calls the "user experience". Which is, of course, central to any interface -- but it's important to note that Gnome has been focused to date on usability without necessarily addressing the experience. There's a subtle but important difference.
GNOME's Google Summer of Code Admins are looking for a few good ideas. In case you missed it, here's the post from Ruben Vermeersch that went out to devel-announce and foundation-announce:
It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all 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.
The Debian Project is seeking a few GNOME lovers 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.
From the email to debian-devel-announce:
You don’t need any special skills. Just join #debian-gnome on the OFTC IRC network, and we’ll provide all the guidance you need. Ultimately, the goal is to have, at the end of that week-end, all bugs against GNOME packages in one of those states: * closed * forwarded upstream * having a fix ready to upload * waiting for more information from the submitter
You don’t need any special skills. Just join #debian-gnome on the OFTC IRC network, and we’ll provide all the guidance you need.
Ultimately, the goal is to have, at the end of that week-end, all bugs against GNOME packages in one of those states: * closed * forwarded upstream * having a fix ready to upload * waiting for more information from the submitter
Again, the Debian/GNOME bug weekend takes place on February 27 and 28. If you have some free time, you can help Debian and GNOME!
The 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.
The full schedule is available on GNOME.org. The next beta is schedule for February 22. The release announcement has pointers to the tarballs for 2.29.90.
The latest GNOME Journal 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!
The latest GNOME Journal was edited by Sumana Harihareswara, Jim Hodapp, and Stormy Peters.
Want to keep up to date on GNOME Journal? Follow @gnomejournal on Identi.ca and/or Twitter. The GNOME Journal team is always looking for contributions!
BOSTON, 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.
The 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 & 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.
Hi , as you can see from the post on the main web page of the project, 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.
For all of you who don't know the project, I can say that its a project whose aim is to bring to Slackware distribution the gnome desktop. Thats about it shortly.
The 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 http://www.gnomeslackbuild.org for more information about what is offered, and how to download it for Slackware.
Robert Lefkowitz's Keynote 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!
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.
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!
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.
