GNOME ED Update – Week 22
Delayed update Firstly, an apology – I’ve been rather lax about doing these updates. I’ll try and highlight more happenings in the project more frequently in future. GUADEC Birthday party In August it will...
Author: Neil McGovern
GNOME ED Update – Week 12
New release! In case you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a new GNOME release – 3.24! The release is the result of 6 months’ work by the GNOME community. The new release is a...
GNOME ED update – Week 10
Conferences After quite a bit of work, we finally have the sponsorship brochure produced for GUADEC and GNOME.Asia. Huge thanks to everyone who helped, I’m really pleased with the result. Again, if you or your company...
GNOME ED update – Week 9
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be posting regularly with an update on what I’ve been up to as the GNOME Executive Director, and highlighting some cool stuff around the project! If you...
A new journey – GNOME Foundation Executive Director
For those who haven’t heard, I’ve been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, and I started last week on the 15th February. It’s been an interesting week so far, mainly...
On ZFS in Debian
I’m currently over at FOSDEM, and have been asked by a couple of people about the state of ZFS and Debian. So, I thought I’d give a quick post to explain what Debian’s current...
Forty five hours
As some may know, since October 2013, I’ve been studying to gain my Private Pilot Licence, and I finally achieved this goal. It’s actually taken quite a bit more than 45 hours – a...
Taking office
Yesterday, my first term started as the Debian Project Leader. There’s been a large number of emails congratulating me, and thanks to everyone who sent those. I’d also like to thank Mehdi Dogguy and Gergely Nagy...
Barbie the Debian Developer
Some people may have seen recently that the Barbie series has a rather sexist book out about Barbie the Computer Engineer. Fortunately, there’s a way to improve this by making your own version. Thus,...
Entering the fray – 2014 DPL election
After a number of years in Debian, in various roles, I decided to put my name forward for election to Debian Project Leader. My platform has now been published, and campaigning is now under...