GUADEC is starting tomorrow, but the GNOME Foundation was busy today with a all-day board meeting. With the election results now being official, we were able to welcome Germán and Srini.
Still, the meeting wasn't easy for everybody.
Still, you can be sure that the board is working hard for the Foundation to make sure that the GNOME project will succeed!
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Woo, Jan Schmidt just created a wiki page so people can register to the most important part of GUADEC: the Ice Cream Deathmatch (renamed to Ice Cream Eating Competition
, probably because Jan doesn't feel he can win ;-)). So go ahead and register! If you want to help organize this, send us a small note — we don't know yet the date or format of this competition.
Last year, the deathmatch was crazy, with Henri being stunningly fast. And fast
is actually not giving him enough credit...
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Last week was LinuxTag, in Berlin, and I went there to help with the openSUSE booth. We had a really nice booth, where people could play with laptops, try the build service or SUSE Studio. Oh, and we enjoyed writing words with magnetic letters on a board :-)
Attendees were mostly german people, of course. So it was quite funny to start talking with people in English, and have them reply in German ;-) But after some time, I got used to German again, so I could talk a bit, or at least understand what people were saying. Yes, you might not know about it, but I'm supposed to have a good level of German. Let me stress the supposed
...
Image from Adrian Schröter
This was a great opportunity to meet various people from the community. I discovered how active the people from the openSUSE Education are — quite impressive! As usual, it was good to also be able to put faces on names, and catch up with friends, or discuss various topics (login-time performance, UI design, openSUSE Conference, etc.). I definitely came back with some food for thoughts.
Sven made sure the GNOME booth was working well The stickers that GNOME-FR had printed for Solutions Linux were quite nice to have, at least I would think so ;-) At some point, Sven and I created a new lovely background for the GNOME desktop, based on Big Buck Bunny; I'm pretty sure it would make a great default background! Ah, if only I had kept a copy of it...
Among the tidbits worth mentioning, I demoed GNOME Shell to various people — mostly people from the KDE community ;-) —, and although the version I had was quite old (it was git master as of May 1st), people seemed to like it. That makes me even more confident there will be quite some positive action around GNOME Shell during the GUADEC/Desktop Summit.
Image from Adrian Schröter
All in all, this event was obviously quite some hard work for me :-)
I came back from Berlin on Sunday evening, and I'm leaving for Gran Canaria tomorrow. No need to mention that the three days between those dates were incredibly busy, if only for the part where I naively try to catch up with all mails ;-) Still, I find time to be quite excited about the Desktop Summit: it will probably be a busy week, but it'll be amazing for sure! It was also a good surprise to see people thanking the Foundation for sponsoring them to go! The travel committee did a really great job there!
See you all in Gran Canaria!
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It's hard to find free time to talk about what's going on during the Community Week, but I guess it's a good thing :-) But I'm quite excited about what we can do today: it's testing day on the GNOME side of the Community Week. There are several things that we prepared for this session...
Thunderbird 3
Our Thunderbird friends are hard at work on Thunderbird 3, and they have a special bug day around the linux version of Thunderbird today. It's a good opportunity to do have some cross-project fun, and Wolfgang made some packages of the current snapshots.
So just go to the Software Portal and click the relevant one-click install button to get Thunderbird 3. You'll enjoy the refreshed interface Andreas has been working on. And then join #bugday on irc.mozilla.org and #opensuse-gnome on irc.freenode.net to give some feedback :-)
GNOME Shell
At the beginning of the month, I prepared some GNOME Shell packages for openSUSE, so people could start playing with them. This is a good first step to help Owen aggressively push GNOME developers to switch
;-) Patches are still needed right now to make mutter parallel-installable with metacity (and to adapt gnome-shell to this change), but it'll eventually get fixed.
I'm updating the packages to git master right now, but you should already be able to install the previous packages: just head over the Software Portal and look at those nice one-click install buttons ;-) Once you have installed the packages, save your documents, and run gnome-shell --replace in your current session.
Wondering what to do after that? #gnome-shell on irc.gnome.org and #opensuse-gnome on irc.freenode.net will be a good place to chat about what's good and what's currently missing :-)
AT-SPI D-Bus
Stephen is working on some packages for at-spi-dbus. We hoped it'd be ready in time, but it seems there were some compilation problems. Hopefully, they'll be available soon -- I would think in the worst case, people will be able to test them this week-end.
Providing an easy way to test at-spi-dbus will certainly help accelerate its adoption since, well, bugs will be found earlier ;-) I'm pretty sure that Bryen is excited about this!
And more...
This is just a sample of what you can do for testing, and there are obviously more things to play with:
So that's it, join us, tell us what you think, try the packages, and have fun!
The Community Week started yesterday (more on this below) and today is Patch Tagging and Upstreaming Day: we want to better document our patches and send them upstream if we didn't already -- we have guidelines for this since quite some time :-)
The interesting part of this session is that we can involve upstream: we want to make it easy for upstream people to look at patches for their modules and give us feedback. So if you're an upstream maintainer, you can simply go to the list of patches (ordered by packages or tags) for the packages maintained by the GNOME team and join #opensuse-gnome on freenode to discuss the patches. We'll be glad to chat about how wrong they are ;-)
Patch Tagging and Upstreaming Day is the second session of the Community week; we started yesterday with a Packaging Day and it went quite well: there were quite some new faces popping up in #opensuse-gnome and it seems the introduction that was done in the morning was useful to at least some of them :-) The afternoon and evening saw people working on new packages, which is good to see. It was actually quite cool to see people just joining up, and start working on things they simply wanted to see packaged.
Also, after some very brief discussion during this Packaging day, we also finally moved and created GNOME:Contrib, the project for GNOME packages that we want to see in Contrib. I'm glad we did this small change as this is an important step towards the goal of sharing new packages with all users: instead of having various packages in random places, they will now be easy to find. This is merely an organizational change that users won't directly see, but it will have positive impact on their life, hopefully ;-)
Now let's start this second day! Head over #opensuse-gnome and say hi :-)
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