Archive for April, 2008

maemo news: “Introducing Dave Neary”

From maemo news:
Dave Neary is reading all kinds of maemo content as we speak: developer documentation, mailing list archives, web pages at maemo.org… He has a good reason for that: Nokia is funding some of his time to work as the content guy for the maemo community. Just like Niels Breet, he is being paid […]

Opinion: Red Hat, Novell, Canonical and the free software desktop

(reposted from my personal blog)
Lots of people are up in arms because Red Hat’s desktop team released a statement containing this: “we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future”, and Ron Hovsepian said “Novell’s Suse Linux at the desktop is unlikely to be popular with […]

Libre Graphics Meeting fundraising campaign over: declared a success

The Libre Graphics Meeting fundraising campaign has come to an end. After two weeks, the campaign raised USD$11,368 from over 275 donors, and the campaign badge which people could use to publicise the campaign appeared on over 750 sites, generating in excess of 850,000 page-views over the duration of the campaign.

3rd GNOME Mobile Summit to be held in Austin

The GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin next month represents a forum where industry and community have merged into one, and have been collaborating effectively on adabting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile computing.

Libre Graphics Meeting launches fundraiser

The Libre Graphics Meeting needs your help!
In its third edition this year, this conference brings together  developers and users from free software graphics projects including the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita and more.
This year, the organisers are asking for your help to make the conference rock, and to cover the travel costs of as many […]