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the CfP will be closed this Saturday, and we still have potential in order to submit a talk proposal, you have to subscribe on ciao, – Hey all. We should probably be thinking about where the “Boston” Summit will be Thanks and take care. Hello all, Here comes GNOME 3.8.1, the first update to GNOME 3.8, it includes We won’t end it here, we published the schedule for our next releases,
During the week of 8 April 2013, developers from the KDE, GNOME, Unity and Razor-qt projects met at the SUSE offices in Nürnberg to improve collaboration between the projects by discussing specifications. A wide range of topics was covered. There was agreement on a specification for a D-Bus interface to be implemented by applications. Pending implementation, applications are now capable of being launched using D-Bus activation instead of executing a binary. Changes were also agreed for the desktop entry specification for applications to advertise this capability. We reached agreement on a modification to the trash specification to allow for an efficient means of determining the size of all items in the trash (to warn the user when the size is getting too large). A new file format was defined to cache and index the contents of all .desktop files within a particular directory. This new format will allow efficient full-text search over desktop files as well as efficient lookups of various other kinds (for example, identifying which apps support a given file type) while increasing performance by reducing disk seeks. It will also reduce memory consumption because it can be shared by all processes using mmap. The in-development kernel D-Bus implementation was presented at the meeting. Representatives from the desktop environments made suggestions to improve the kernel API to facilitate implementation of libraries. We discussed the future of accountsservice and how, going forward, the project will be sensitive to the needs of desktops other than GNOME. This included specific discussions regarding implementation of storing user locale in the service as well as providing an extension mechanism for structured storage of arbitrary key/value data, without needing to patch the service. There were initial discussions (with no concrete results) on a wide range of other topics including D-Bus session management APIs, a replacement for X11-based startup notification, application intents and “portals”, exporting action groups on D-Bus and adding actions to context menus in the file browser. Perhaps most importantly we have come to agreement on a plan for improving the maintenance of freedesktop specifications going forward. One representative from each of GNOME, KDE and Unity will form a joint maintainer team. This team will monitor and participate in conversations on the xdg list and decide when consensus has been reached. The intention is to revive the usefulness of the xdg list as the primary point of communication between desktop projects. Banshee 2.6.1 has been released! Banshee 2.6.1 is a stable, bug-fix-only release building on Banshee 2.6.0. Hello all, We hope you all got nice release parties for GNOME 3.8, and already Hi, I’ve published a draft for the GNOME 3.9/3.10 schedule to https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointNine#Schedule In case of no feedback this will become the final schedule in a few andre
GNOME.Asia Summit 2013 will be held in Seoul, Korea in May 24-25, 2013. We are looking for YOUR help to design t-shirts for this year’s Summit. We need two new shirt designs, one for participants and another for volunteers. The contest is open from now until April 19th, 2013. Voting will begin April 20 and run through April 23, 2013. Everyone is encouraged to log in and vote at this page: http://2013.gnome.asia/tshirts/ PrizesNo contest should be called a contest without some prizes! This year we have the following up for grab:
Note: The final decision will be made by GNOME.Asia Summit Committee. Please understand that the highest vote score of the design may not be designated the final winner due to cost or other production considerations. Good luck! GNOME.Asia Committee
After 8 months of development, MATE 1.6 has been released yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours ago with the latest MATE desktop. The new version comes with many changes such as Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements and more.MATE 1.6 is “a giant step forward from the 1.4 [...] Hi everyone! The call for presentations for GUADEC 2013 in Brno is finally open. You can register here: https://www.guadec.org/wp-login.php?action=register and submit your talk once you receive the registration email. I have attached the CfP body in the email, but the executive summary is: • talks are going to be submitted on the GUADEC website; • you can submit a talk until Saturday, April 27th; • you will receive a notification whether your talk has been accepted or not around May 4th; • lightning talks and BoF sessions will have their own CfP. See you all in Brno! ciao, Emmanuele. +++ GUADEC Call for Participation GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe since 2000. GNOME is a free software project which drives user interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones to laptops and personal media centers. GUADEC is the world's largest gathering of users and developers who are involved with the free desktop and mobile user interfaces. GUADEC is expected to draw hundreds of attendees who will discuss and direct the future of the GNOME project. Developers, artists, translators, users, and representatives from government, education, and businesses, and anyone else who shares an interest are welcome. GUADEC 2013 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, a city which has played host to several other successful GNOME-related hackfests in the past. The conference will be held August 1st to 8th, with extra days available after the core conference for hackfests and meetings. The schedule of the conference mirrors the ongoing development of the GNOME project: • Design of the core user experience (core applications, shell, toolkit) • Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) • Integration and extension of the operating system plumbings into the core UX • Application development and deployment • Integration of web technologies into the GNOME user experience • Improving the user experience on different form factors • Outreach to new contributors • Organization and governance of the project Submissions that do not fit into these categories are also welcome, provided that they are relevant or inspirational to the GNOME community. The Call for Participation for GUADEC 2013 has the following timeline: 1. Saturday, April 27h: Deadline for submission of abstracts 2. Saturday, May 4th: Notification of speakers 3. August 1st to 8th: The conference takes place in Brno, Czech Republic Please submit your proposals before April 27th through the online submission system. Presentations will be reviewed by the program committee between the 28th of April and 4th of May. A separate call for lightning talks will be issued in April. If you are interested in organizing a workshop session, BoF or project room during the second part of GUADEC, please wait until the relevant call for participation is made. The program committee is looking forward to your submissions to participate in GUADEC 2013 and contributing to turn the event into a large success. In case of questions regarding the Call for Participation, please contact the program committee at guadec-papers< at >gnome.org. For general questions regarding the conference, please consult the GUADEC web site or contact the local GUADEC organizing team. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce Hi everyone! The call for presentations for GUADEC 2013 in Brno is finally open. You can register here: https://www.guadec.org/wp-login.php?action=register and submit your talk once you receive the registration email. I have attached the CfP body in the email, but the executive summary is: • talks are going to be submitted on the GUADEC website; • you can submit a talk until Saturday, April 27th; • you will receive a notification whether your talk has been accepted or not around May 4th; • lightning talks and BoF sessions will have their own CfP. See you all in Brno! ciao, Emmanuele. +++ GUADEC Call for Participation GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe since 2000. GNOME is a free software project which drives user interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones to laptops and personal media centers. GUADEC is the world's largest gathering of users and developers who are involved with the free desktop and mobile user interfaces. GUADEC is expected to draw hundreds of attendees who will discuss and direct the future of the GNOME project. Developers, artists, translators, users, and representatives from government, education, and businesses, and anyone else who shares an interest are welcome. GUADEC 2013 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, a city which has played host to several other successful GNOME-related hackfests in the past. The conference will be held August 1st to 8th, with extra days available after the core conference for hackfests and meetings. The schedule of the conference mirrors the ongoing development of the GNOME project: • Design of the core user experience (core applications, shell, toolkit) • Design of the developer experience (tools, documentation, services) • Integration and extension of the operating system plumbings into the core UX • Application development and deployment • Integration of web technologies into the GNOME user experience • Improving the user experience on different form factors • Outreach to new contributors • Organization and governance of the project Submissions that do not fit into these categories are also welcome, provided that they are relevant or inspirational to the GNOME community. The Call for Participation for GUADEC 2013 has the following timeline: 1. Saturday, April 27h: Deadline for submission of abstracts 2. Saturday, May 4th: Notification of speakers 3. August 1st to 8th: The conference takes place in Brno, Czech Republic Please submit your proposals before April 27th through the online submission system. Presentations will be reviewed by the program committee between the 28th of April and 4th of May. A separate call for lightning talks will be issued in April. If you are interested in organizing a workshop session, BoF or project room during the second part of GUADEC, please wait until the relevant call for participation is made. The program committee is looking forward to your submissions to participate in GUADEC 2013 and contributing to turn the event into a large success. In case of questions regarding the Call for Participation, please contact the program committee at guadec-papers< at >gnome.org. For general questions regarding the conference, please consult the GUADEC web site or contact the local GUADEC organizing team. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ Everything’s back at full capacity since a few hours. Have an awesome day everyone! 2013/3/29 Andrea Veri <av-rDKQcyrBJuzYtjvyW6yDsg< at >public.gmane.org> Hi, the SSSD daemons (the one responsible for getting all the relevant details SSSD has an internal cache and… GNOME 3.8 has been released today, the new version bringing many new features and enhancements, including a new application view and overhauled window layout for GNOME Shell, new setting panels for privacy, search and notifications and of course, many updates to the core GNOME apps like Web (Epiphany), Boxes, Documents and more.Let’s take a look [...]
The GNOME Project has officially released GNOME 3.8 today. This latest version of GNOME 3 delivers major new features, a brand new application and a host of smaller bug fixes and enhancements. Speaking on behalf of the GNOME Release Team, Matthias Clasen said, “We are excited to release this latest version of GNOME 3. It is an extremly strong release, and is a major update to the GNOME 3 experience. We would like to thank the entire GNOME community for their hard work and dedication.” Highlights for GNOME 3.8 include:
You can find out more about the many other improvements GNOME 3.8 in the release notes.
GNOME’s partners have already welcomed the new release. Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader, said “Thanks to GNOME, our default desktop since many many years, we have been able to offer to our users a free productivity environment which is both visually appealing and easy to use. I wish the GNOME community all the best of luck for GNOME 3.8, which we are looking forward to have in our development release.” “We’re really excited about the 3.8 release,” said a statement issued by Igalia, “in part because Web, the GNOME browser, debuts its WebKit2 backend, something we at Igalia have been working hard on for years. WebKit2 delivers a state-of-the-art web runtime to our platform, with increased responsiveness, security and stability, making Web 3.8 and all the applications using WebKit much more pleasant and exciting to use.” A press release also accompanies the launch of GNOME 3.8.
Groton, MA – March 27, 2013. The GNOME Community is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.8, the latest update of the free software desktop environment and developer platform, which continues to refine and redefine the concept of the user experience. Easy to use and incredibly powerful, GNOME delivers amazing performance, stunning graphics and enhanced privacy. GNOME comes with software that’s easy to learn and a pleasure to use. GNOME 3.8 is the outcome of six months of effort by GNOME developers and their partners and contains 35,936 contributions by approximately 960 people. It provides new features, fixes, and improvements that include a range of applications to satisfy users’ needs and new designs that continue to provide the very best in user interaction. GNOME 3.8 is welcomed by the volunteers and companies who contribute to its success. “Intel is happy to join the celebration of the GNOME 3.8 release. Many of our engineers are part of the strong community that has once again come together to drive innovation and deliver constant improvement for the Linux desktop.” said Imad Sousou, director of Open Source Technology Center, Intel. “As a principled distribution, Debian‘s main goal is to provide our users with the greatest free software out there, bundled as a coherent whole. Thanks to GNOME, our default desktop for many many years,” said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader, “we have been able to offer to our users a free productivity environment which is both visually appealing and easy to use. I wish the GNOME community all the best of luck for GNOME 3.8, which we are looking forward to have in our development release.” In this release, privacy has become one of GNOME’s primary focuses. GNOME 3.8 includes new privacy and sharing settings to allow you to be in control of information on your computer. Additionally, this is the first release to support OwnCloud integration. These new changes will allow you to easily track your activities and protect your personal information, making GNOME more secure than ever. GNOME’s web browser has also seen significant changes, providing a faster and more fluid web experience. “We’re really excited about the 3.8 release,” said a statement issued by Igalia, “in part because Web, the GNOME browser, debuts its WebKit2 backend, something we at Igalia have been working hard on for years. WebKit2 delivers a state-of-the-art web runtime to our platform, with increased responsiveness, security and stability, making Web 3.8 and all the applications using WebKit much more pleasant and exciting to use.” Other new features presented in GNOME 3.8 include revamped search functionality from the Activities Overview, an updated Application launching view, and a new pressure-activated notification bar. GNOME 3.8 also includes a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. Many usability details have been addressed that provide a more polished experience, including improvements to the notifications system, lock screen, and overview. Many of these changes were made as part of the second round of the Every Detail Matters initiative, which fixed nearly 60 usability bugs during the 3.8 development cycle. GNOME 3.8 for the first time comes with GNOME Classic for those who prefer a traditional desktop experience. GNOME Classic configures the desktop to include popular GNOME 2 features but with the underlying power of GNOME 3 technologies. The GNOME Classic experience is further enhanced by GNOME’s growing library of community created extensions. “GNOME 3 is elegant by default and extremely configurable by design,” said Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. “The release of GNOME Classic is evidence of the ability to customize GNOME through extensions and demonstrates how our developers have listened and responded to feedback from the community.” These changes and many others in GNOME 3.8 are detailed in the 3.8 release notes. A screenshot pack for GNOME 3.8 is available to download. About GNOMEGNOME was started in 1997 by two then-university students, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero. Their aim: to produce a free (as in freedom) desktop environment. Since then, GNOME has grown into a hugely successful enterprise. Used by millions of people around the world, it is the most popular environment for GNU/Linux and UNIX-type operating systems. GNOME’s software has been utilized in successful, large-scale enterprise and public deployments. The GNOME community is made up of hundreds of contributors from all over the world, many of whom are volunteers. This community is supported by the GNOME Foundation, an independent non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and legal assistance. The Foundation is a democratic institution that is directed by its members, who are all active GNOME contributors. GNOME and its Foundation works to promote software freedom through the creation of innovative, accessible, and beautiful user experiences. GNOME 3.8 Released Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.8, the GNOME 3.8 is the fourth maj… GNOME lost an old friend last week. Malcolmn Tredinnick passed The GNOME Foundation <http://www.gnome.org/foundation/> provides travel sponsorships to individuals who want to attend GNOME.Asia 2013 and need financial assistance. We are happy to announce the Travel Committee<https://live.gnome.org/Travel> is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend GNOME.Asia 2013. This year, GNOME.Asia 2013 is being held in NIPA Business Center, Sangam-dong Seoul, Korea on May 24 -25, 2013 The instructions are detailed at http://live.gnome.org/Travel Please read them carefully. Deadline: Mar 29, 2013, 19:00 UTC. You can start sending in your applications now! Some extra comments: * Any information you send to the Travel Committee will be private. * Asking for sponsorship *does not* guarantee you will get sponsored. * A good application with good information will be processed fast. * If you need help with accommodation, you should state in your application that you need lodging, and leave the cost blank. * Always choose the most economical option when possible. People who need travel sponsorship, should look for the best price (i.e. through a service like kayak.com). If the Travel Committee finds a cheaper price, that will be the price considered during the evaluation. * Preference would be given to speakers, Foundation members, GSOC students, Women Outreach Program interns and active contributors. * If your country needs a VISA invitation letter and you are a GNOME contributor, please let the GNOME Travel committee know about it. * If you are selected for the Google Summer of Code or the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (as student or mentor) you should mention it in your application. * If your talk was selected for GNOME.Asia 2013, you should mention it in your application. * The Travel committee should reply back about receiving your application within 2-3 days. After that we would accumulate all the sponsorship requests and process them together. So please do not panic (have any butterflies in your stomach) if we take some time to reply on the status. Affirmative/Negative you would surely get a response. * No personal emails to committee members. Please keep travel-committee Cc’ed on all your replies. Feel free to ask questions on the travel-committee list. You can also find us in the #travel channel at irc.gnome.org Regards, Bharath On Behalf of GNOME Travel Committee _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
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