GNOME ED Update – February

Another update is now due from what we’ve been doing at the Foundation, and we’ve been busy!

As you may have seen, we’ve hired three excellent people over the past couple of months. Kristi Progri has joined us as Program Coordinator, Bartłomiej Piorski as a devops sysadmin, and Emmanuele Bassi as our GTK Core developer. I hope to announce another new hire soon, so watch this space…

There’s been quite a lot of discussion around the Google API access, and GNOME Online Accounts. The latest update is that I submitted the application to Google to get GOA verified, and we’ve got a couple of things we’re working through to get this sorted.

Events all round!

Although the new year’s conference season is just kicking off, it’s been a busy one for GNOME already. We were at FOSDEM in Brussels where we had a large booth, selling t-shirts, hoodies and of course, the famous GNOME socks. I held a meeting of the Advisory Board, and we had a great GNOME Beers event – kindly sponsored by Codethink.

We also had a very successful GTK Hackfest – moving us one step closer to GTK 4.0.

Coming up, we’ll have a GNOME booth at:

• SCALEx17 – Pasadena, California (7^th – 10^th March)
• LibrePlanet – Boston Massachusetts (23^rd – 24^th March)
• FOSS North – Gothenburg, Sweden (8^th – 9^th April)
• Linux Fest North West – Bellingham, Washington (26^th – 28^th April)

If you’re at any of these, please come along and say hi! We’re also planning out events for the rest of the year. If anyone has any particularly exciting conferences we may not have heard of, please let us know.

Discourse

It hasn’t yet been announced, but we’re trialling an instance of Discourse for the GTK and Engagement teams. It’s hopeful that this may replace mailman, but we’re being quite careful to make sure that email integration continues to work. Expect more information about this in the coming month. If you want to go have a look, the instance is available at discourse.gnome.org