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TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 3.3.5

05.02.2012 01:45 Hello all, Live from snowy FOSDEM, here is your call for tarballs. Tarballs are due on 2012-02-06 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.3.5 unstable release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 3.3.5. If you are not able to make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you! For more information about 3.3, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 3.3 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Thanks, Fred

Excellent Progress Made at GNOME Accessibility Hackfest

03.02.2012 01:00 The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas like GTK, ATK, AT-SPI2, Qt, WebKitGtk+ and Gecko.    by The hackfest was very productive, some of the highlights included: It was agreed to as soon as an alternative implementation is provided. Several approaches for this implementation where discussed. Accessibility support for WebKitGtk+ has been further improved with a , as well as exposing WebKit2Gtk+, accessibility hierarchies to ATK/AT-SPI. Ideas for a more efficient and effective were discussed, with the goal of keeping DBus messages traffic to a minimum. There was an important discussion about . The aim here is to make sure that only the relevant events are sent to accessibility clients. In the short term, the current goblal-events hook-based implementation will be maintained, but we will be exploring alternatives. It was concluded that in order to , we shouldn’t use ATK-bridge as a module, but integrate it in the core platform. Several possible approaches were discussed, and we set the aim of having a concrete plan decided by the time GNOME 3.4 is released. These and other accessibility underpinnings were worked on, which will effectively improve the experience of GNOME users who need accessibility features. There are many challenges in the near future of accessibility and GNOME is currently campaigning to raise funds to support its ongoing efforts. . The GNOME Foundation and community are very grateful to the sponsors of this event:

See GNOME at FOSDEM 2012, February 4-5th

01.02.2012 00:15 GNOME will be very present at . The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium. GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this year, with T-Shirts for sale, stickers and more. GNOME developers will be available to answer questions and will be demonstrating the latest GNOME technologies. GNOME community members will also be attending FOSDEM including Karen Sandler, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, as well as members of the GNOME Release Team. There are going to be many talks about GNOME, covering topics ranging from new technologies, community organization and design. Most of these talks will be held in the Cross-Desktop Devroom . Here are some of them: Saturday Feb 4 11:20 H.1308 50 minutes GStreamer 1.0 – the next generation of your favourite multimedia framework Tim-Philipp Müller Feb. 4 17:00 H. 1308 30 minutes GNOME 3: Every Detail Matters Allan Day Feb 5 13:30 H. 1308 40 minutes How to trick a developer into being a designer? Seif Lotfy Allan Day Feb 5 13:30 H.1308 40 minutes Make your applications smarter via Zeitgeist Seif Lotfy Feb 5 09:15 H.1308 40 minutes GNOME 3.4 accessible: Status, news, future Alejandro Piiñeiro Iglesias Feb 5 15:00 H.1308 40 minutes WebKitGTK+ status and roadmap to WebKit2 Mario Sanchez Prada Feb 5 15:45 H.1308 30 minutes Getting into GNOME: Impressions of a new maintainer David King Sunday Feb 5 16:20 H.1308 30 minutes Web Applications in GNOME Xan López Sunday Feb 5 10:45 H.1308 30 minutes Boxes, use other systems with ease Marc-André Lureau Zeeshan Ali   As usual, there will be a GNOME Beer Party on Saturday night. Held at “La Bécasse” from 20:00-00:30 in the city center If you are a GNOME contributor, let us know if you will be attending FOSDEM at: .