Category: Planet GNOME
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Introducing Regento, marketing for FLOSS-centric companies and transitioning industries
In this blog post, I’m taking a quick break from my GTG blogging frenzy to talk about another one of my non-software projects from the past few months years (estimated reading time: 3 ½ minutes). Some may remember I previously introduced the Atypica collective as a dedicated place where I could showcase some of my…
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“Getting Things GNOME” 0.5 released!
It is time to welcome a new release of the Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: 0.5, “You Can (Not) Improve Performance”! This release of GTG has been 9 months in the making after the groundbreaking 0.4 release. While 0.4 was a major “perfect storm” overhaul, 0.5 is also a very technology-intensive release, even though it was done…
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A new data format has landed in the upcoming GTG 0.5
Here’s a general call for testing from your favorite pythonic native Linux desktop personal productivity app, GTG. In recent months, Diego tackled the epic task of redesigning the XML file format from a new specification devised with the help of Brent Saner (proposal episodes 1, 2 and 3), and then implementing the new file format…
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The origins of the Flow Game 🎥
Let’s kickstart the new year with a short & simple blog post, as a way to get me back on the blogging treadmill, and as a way to ensure my blog still works fine (I have just finished a very heavy-handed migration and database encoding surgery for my blog, which took months to solve… that’ll…
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Spooky GTG features to try out for Halloween 2020
Are you an irresistible creature with an insatiable love for the dead… bugs? Well, grab your bug hunter crossbow, because we need you to test some big technological changes in GTG so that we can confidently release version 0.5 sometime soon (way before the year end, ideally). Synchronizing your tasks across devices using CalDAV A…
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Introducing Atypica
A while ago, I envisioned building a new* professional video production collective for commercial and non-commercial projects, both as a “creative outlet” for one of my long-standing passions, and as a way to build a specialized service offering that can act as a bridge between my own Montreal-based marketing agency and other collaborators or artists…
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Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released!
We are very proud to be announcing today the 0.4 release of Getting Things GNOME (“GTG”), codenamed “You Are (Not) Done”. This much-awaited release is a major overhaul that brings together many updates and enhancements, including new features, a modernized user interface and updated underlying technology. Beyond what is featured in these summarized release notes…
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Revival of GTG, status update #2: git ready to test!
As a follow-up to my first global project situation update, I am happy to report great progress towards the successful revival of the GTG project. You can see that in this fancy-pants teaser trailer (featuring epic music, big explosions and special effects), or this short status update video that also includes the trailer in it:…
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Overhauling your Open Source project's "Developer Experience" and redefining the workflow
A collection of observations and insights about attracting contributors by improving the developer experience of your open source project, particularly if you don’t have the luxury of paid developers.
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2020: the fecal matter is colliding with the rotary oscillator
Many friends of mine, including a significant portion of GNOME contributors, are in the United States, and I’m personally worried they (or those around them) will face particularly deep trouble this year and beyond. It seems nobody dares talk openly about it, so what the heck, I’m sharing my concern here and getting it out…