The GNOME Foundation Board is happy to announce that following the Call for Bids for GNOME Accessibility Work, Igalia, a Spanish company, was selected to perform the work.

We received a great bid from Igalia with a detailed analysis of the current state of document accessibility within GNOME and a comprehensive plan to achieve the expected results. It was reviewed by a committee of volunteers who are active in GNOME’s accessibility work but who were not affiliated with any submitted proposal. The committee, composed of David Bolter, Mike Gorse, Juanjo Marín, Joseph Scheuhammer and John Walicki, made their recommendation to the Foundation’s Board of Directors which then voted to accept the bid (with the interested director recusing herself from all relevant discussion). The full bid has been published on the GNOME wiki.

“It was an honor to participate in the volunteer committee and collaborate with this group of top-notch accessibility professionals. We all agree that Igalia presented an excellent bid and we are confident that they have the knowledge and experience to successfully address accessibility support for pdfs,” said Juanjo Marín, a member of the GNOME accessibility team and Branch IT Manager for the Junta de Andalucía in the Culture and Sports Department in Cadiz, Spain.

Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Carlos García Campos and Joanmarie Diggs will be the main developers working on the project. They are experienced developers in all the technologies and components involved, like Poppler, Evince, ATK, AT-SPI2 and Orca, which guarantees that GNOME Documents and Evince will get the accessibility support that many GNOME users are waiting for.

The GNOME Foundation Board would like to thank to all the Friends of GNOME accessibility campaign donors and the Mozilla Corporation for funding this work.

Hello all,

Let’s continue our work towards 3.10 with a new milestone; next week
we’re releasing 3.9.3 and we need your tarballs, get them ready!

Tarballs are due on 2013-06-17 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.9.3
unstable release, which will be deli…

Hi all;

The call for Bird of a Feather and Lightning Talks for GUADEC 2013 is now open.

You can submit a proposal for the BoF and hacking sessions to be held
at GUADEC simply by adding your session to the wiki page at:

https://live.gnome.org/GUADE…

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce binary builds for GStreamer
1.0.7, the plugin modules and all their dependencies. In future the team
hopes to update these binary builds shortly after every stable GStreamer
release. Builds are currently prov…

Dear Foundation Members,

the GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.

We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify
their ballot. (see …

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new development release with feature additions for the API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia
framework.

Check out the release notes for
GStreamer core,
gst-plugins-base,
gst-plu…

Hallo!

GNOME 3.9 development is getting underway, with the 3.9.2 snapshot
that is marking the second release of this development cycle [1].
Major changes in this release include:

- First GNOME release without any GConf dependency; Nice to see one of
  the GNOME 3 cleanup goals [2] achieved  

A slight complication is that some modules (eog, totem, gedit) doesnt
build because a
problem with the libpeas release. For sure this will be fixed in the
next development release

To compile GNOME 3.9.2, you can use the jhbuild [3] modulesets
published by the release team [4] (which use the exact tarball
versions from the official release).

The release notes that describe the changes between 3.9.1 and 3.9.2
are available. Go read them to learn what's new in this release:

core  - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.9/3.9.2/NEWS
apps  - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.9/3.9.2/NEWS

The GNOME 3.9.2 release is available here:

core  sources - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.9/3.9.2
apps  sources - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.9/3.9.2


WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
--------------------------

This release is a snapshot of early development code. Although it is
buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking
purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status.

For more information about 3.9, the full schedule, the official module
lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 3.9 page:
   http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see:
   http://live.gnome.org/Schedule

[1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointNine
[2] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration
[3] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
[4] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.9.2/

--
Javier Jardón Cabezas
GNOME Release Team Member

Hello everyone,
Tarballs for the GNOME 3.9.2 release were due on Monday before 23:59
UTC (yesterday, sorry for the delay in the notification).

Please prepare and upload your tarballs as soon as possible. If you
can’t; please send an email to release t…

Dear Foundation Members,

we have just sent the ballots to the registered email addresses of the
electorate.

If you have not received your voting instructions, have a look on the list
of eligible voters on <http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membershi…

Dear Foundation Members,

I am glad to announce the following list of candidates for the Board of
Directors:
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Sriram Ramkrishna
* Andreas Nilsson
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Joanmarie Diggs
*…

About the GStreamer Conference
The GStreamer Conference 2013 will take place from 22-23 October 2013 in
Edinburgh (UK), and will be co-hosted with the Embedded Linux Conference Europe
and the Automotive Linux Summit.

It is a conference for de…

For more than 2 years now, Aaron Bockover, the creator of Banshee, has been paying the costs of our web hosting (Linode server and domain names). This amounts to a bit over $500 per year.

We’re currently looking for a better long term solution for o…

I hereby withdraw my candidacy for the board of directors. I think I will
not bring to the table as much as what the other candidates can bring. I
wish them all the best.

Cheers
Seif
_______________________________________________
foundation-announce …

Overview of changes in Glib 1.300 (stable): Stable release to coincide with the release of Perl 5.18.0; Since 1.28x (The previous stable release); Ensure timely destruction of initial wrapper of custom subclasses; Start changing module version numbers…

Name: Seif Lotfy
Email: seiflotfy (at) gmail.com
Affiliation: None

I have been a GNOME contributor since 2007. And served on the board of
directors the past year.

If elected, I would try to push for more initiatives to get communications
across all g…

Name: Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Email: marinaz< at >redhat.com
Affiliation: Red Hat
Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina

Dear Foundation,

I have been working on GNOME for the last five years, as a developer of online-desktop and gnome-shell and as a…

Name: Ekaterina Gerasimova (kittykat)
Affiliation: none

I have experienced the difficulties that are encountered by our local teams
when organising events and I agree with Joanie that the Foundation’s
processes need to become more efficient. These res…

Name: Sriram Ramkrishna
Email: sri< at >ramkrishna.me
Affiliation: Intel

I have decided this year to continue to increase my participation in
GNOME. I joined GNOME in 1997, working on GNOME Summaries that led to the
GNOME Journal. We expanded…

Name: Andreas Nilsson
Affiliation: Red Hat

Designer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, involved in GNOME since 2005.
I am part of the Marketing Team, mainly hacking on our websites and
putting together printing materials for conferences. I also contribute …