Tag: GNOME
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2015 Annual Reports mailed out
While the latest GNOME annual reports sold like hotcakes at GUADEC, there is still a need to send some of them by snailmail, like I did last year. I was under a pretty big rush from July to mid-October, and since nobody was available to help me determine the list of recipients, I had to…
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Back from the 2016 GNOME Summit
In my previous blog post, where I was providing an update on the 2016 GNOME Summit I was organizing in Montréal, I wrote, With a change of attendees comes a change of the nature of the event: instead of being an extremely technical, “deep end of the pool” event as it has been in the…
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GUADEC 2016, laptops and tablets made to run GNOME, surprise Pitivi meeting
I went there for the 2016 edition of GUADEC: I arrived a couple of days early to attend my last GNOME Foundation board meeting, in one of the KIT’s libraries. The building’s uncanny brutalist architecture only added to the nostalgia of a two years adventure coming to an end: Then… A wild Kat strong-armed me…
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Vice-President’s Report — The State of the GNOME Foundation
Hi! Long time no see. My blog has been pretty quiet in recent months, in the big part due to my extended commitment on the GNOME Foundation‘s Board of Directors (for a second year without an executive director present to take some of the load) and the various business engagements I’ve had. Generally speaking, this…
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Pitivi 0.95 — Enfant Suisse
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new Pitivi release, 0.95. This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work. It’s pretty epic…
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In which I turn into an international shipping operation
In months prior to the GUADEC 2015 conference, both the board of directors and engagement team were kept busy with an above-average workload, so the GNOME Foundation‘s Annual Report had to wait until things settled a bit. After the core days of GUADEC, we held an all-day meeting among members of the Engagement team (and…
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Outrageous Outreach
The Internet being what it is today, being a public figure can be a very dangerous role. For those unaware, Karen Sandler has been under vigorous attacks—hate mail, public slandering, and more—for having been the GNOME Foundation‘s Executive Director from 2011 to 2014. Contrary to what I had hoped, even many months after, the hate…
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Help us get the GUADEC 2014 videos published
For those who could not attend GUADEC 2015, video recordings have been processed and published here. You might wonder, then, what happened to the GUADEC 2014 videos. The talks in Strasbourg were recorded indeed, but the audio came from the camera’s built-in microphones (so no truly directional mic and no line-in feed). This is problematic…
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GUADEC 2015, surviving a fire and plane accident, etc.
So I went to GUADEC, as a community member and one of the directors of the GNOME Foundation. Thanks to the Foundation for covering my travel and accomodation—it makes all the difference! It was a really good GUADEC. The local team put a huge amount of efforts into making it possible. There is a public page…
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President’s Report — The State of the GNOME Foundation
As I hinted in my retrospective in February, 2014 has been crazy busy on a personal level. Let’s now take a look at 2014-2015 from a GNOME perspective. When I offered my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation‘s Board of Directors in May last year, I knew that there would be plenty of issues to tackle…